(5) As for their saying
that human actions depend on the will, this is a mere phrase without
any idea to correspond thereto. (35:6) What the will is, and how it
moves the body, they none of them know; those who boast of such knowledge,
and feign dwellings and habitations for the soul, are wont to provoke
either laughter or disgust. (7) So, again, when we look at the sun, we
imagine that it is distant from us about two hundred feet; this error
does not lie solely in this fancy, but in the fact that, while we thus
imagine, we do not know the sun's true distance or the cause of the fancy.
(35:8) For although we afterwards learn, that the sun is distant from us
more than six hundred of the earth's diameters, we none the less shall
fancy it to be near; for we do not imagine the sun as near us, because
we are ignorant of its true distance, but because the modification of
our body involves the essence of the sun, in so far as our said body is
affected thereby.
Prop.[XXXVI] Inadequate and confused ideas follow by the same
necessity, as adequate or clear and distinct ideas.
Proof.- (36:1) All ideas are in God (I:[xv] ), and in so far as they
are referred to God are true ([xxxii] ) and ([vii] Coroll.) adequate;
therefore there are no ideas confused or inadequate, except in respect
to a particular mind (cf. [xxiv] and [xxviii] ); therefore all ideas,
whether adequate or inadequate, follow by the same necessity ([vi] ).
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