Q.E.D.
Prop.[XXIV] The human mind does not involve an adequate
knowledge of the parts composing the human body.
Proof.- (24:1) The parts composing the human body do not belong to the
essence of that body, except in so far as they communicate their motions
to one another in a certain fixed relation (Definition [13:24] ), not
in so far as they can be regarded as individuals without relation to
the human body. (2) The parts of the human body are highly complex
individuals ([Po.i] ), whose parts ([L.iv] ) can be separated from the
human body without in anyway destroying the nature and distinctive quality
of the latter, and they can communicate their motions ([A.viii] ) to other
bodies in another relation; therefore ([iii] ) the idea or knowledge of
each part will be in God, inasmuch ([ix] ) as he is regarded as affected
by another idea of a particular thing, which particular thing is prior in
the order of nature to the aforesaid part ([vii] ). (24:3) We may affirm
the same thing of each part of each individual composing the human body;
therefore, the knowledge of each part composing the human body is in God,
in so far as he is affected by very many ideas of things, and not in so
far as he has the idea of the human body only, in other words, the idea
which constitutes the nature of the human mind ([xiii] ); therefore
([xi] Coroll.), the human mind does not involve an adequate knowledge
of the human body.
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