But so long as we are alive, we can no more bring ourselves to a state in which we shall not have known them than we can with regard to any material object, than we can, for example, doubt the luminosity of a lamp that has just been lighted, in view of the changed aspect of everything in the room, from which has vanished even the memory of the darkness.
Baina, bizirik dirauguino, ezin dugu ezagutuko ez bagenitu bezala jardun, nola ezin dugun hala jardun objektu errealekin, nola ezin dugun, esate baterako, zalantzan jarri gure gelako objektu metamorfosatuen aurrean pizten dugun lanpararen argia, gure gelatik iluntasunaren oroitza bera ere uxatzen baitigu.