), the human mind
does not know the human body. (19:3) But the ideas of the modifications of
body are in God, in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind,
or the human mind perceives those modifications ([xii] ), and consequently
([xvi] ) the human body itself, and as actually existing; therefore the
mind perceives thus far only the human body. Q.E.D.
Prop.[XX] The idea or knowledge of the human mind is also is
God, following in God in the same manner, and being
referred to God in the same manner, as the idea
knowledge of the human body.
Proof.- (20:1) Thought is an attribute of God ([i] ); therefore ([iii] )
there must necessarily be in God the idea both of thought itself and of
all its modifications, consequently also of the human mind ([xi] ).
(2) Further, this idea or knowledge of the mind does not follow from God,
in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he is affected by another
idea of an individual thing ([ix] ). (20:3) But ([vii] ) the order and
connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes;
therefore this idea or knowledge of the mind is in God and is referred
to God, in the same manner as the idea or knowledge of the body. Q.E.D.
Prop.[XXI] This idea of the mind is united to the mind in
the same way as the mind is united to the body.
Proof.- (21:1) That the mind is united to the body we have shown from the
fact, that the body is the object of the mind ([xii] and [xiii] ); and
so for the same reason the idea of the mind must be united with its object,
that is, with the mind in the same manner as the mind is united to the
body.
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