(22:3) But the ideas of the modifications of the body are in the human mind
([xii] ), that is, in God, in so far as he constitutes the essence of the
human mind; therefore the ideas of these ideas will be in God, in so far
as he has the knowledge or idea of the human mind, that is ([xxi] ), they
will be in the human mind itself, which therefore perceives not only the
modifications of the body, but also the ideas of such modifications. Q.E.D.
Prop.[XXIII] The mind does not know itself, except in so far
as it perceives the ideas of the modifications
of the body.
Proof.- (23:1) The idea or knowledge of the mind ([xx] ) follows in God
in the same manner, and is referred to God in the same manner, as the
idea or knowledge of the body. (2) But since ([xix] ) the human mind
does not know the human body itself, that is ([xi] Coroll.), since the
knowledge of the human body is not referred to God, in so far as he
constitutes the nature of the human mind; therefore, neither is the
knowledge of the mind referred to God, in so far as he constitutes the
essence of the human mind; therefore (by the same Coroll. of [xi] ),
the human mind thus far has no knowledge of itself. (23:3) Further the
ideas of the modifications, whereby the body is affected, involve the
nature of the human body itself ([xvi] ), that is ([xiii] ), they agree
with the nature of the mind; wherefore the knowledge of these ideas
necessarily involves knowledge of the mind; but (by [xxii] ) the knowledge
of these ideas is in the human mind itself; wherefore the human mind thus
far only has knowledge of itself.
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