Q.E.D.
Note.- (18:2) We now clearly see what Memory is. (2a) It is simply a
certain association of ideas involving the nature of things outside
the human body, which association arises in the mind according to the
order and association of the modifications (affectiones) of the human
body. (3) I say, first, it is an association of those ideas only,
which involve the nature of things outside the human body: not of
ideas which answer to the nature of the said things: ideas of the
modifications of the human body are, strictly speaking ([xvi] ),
those which involve the nature both of the human body and of external
bodies. (18:4) I say, secondly, that this association arises according
to the order and association of the modifications of the human body,
in order to distinguish it from that association of ideas, which arises
from the order of the intellect, whereby the mind perceives things
through their primary causes, and which is in all men the same.
(18:5) And hence we can further clearly understand, why the mind from
the thought of one thing, should straightway arrive at the thought of
another thing, which has no similarity with the first; for instance,
from the thought of the word "pomum" (an apple), a Roman would straightway
arrive at the thought of the fruit apple, which has no similitude
the articulate sound in question, nor anything in common with it,
except that the body of the man has often been affected by these two
things; that is, that the man has often heard the word "pomum," while
he was looking at the fruit; similarly every man will go on from one
thought to another, according as his habit has ordered the images
of things in his body.
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