Prop. [I] Even as thoughts and the ideas of things are arranged
and associated in the mind, so are the modifications
of body or the images of things precisely in the same
way arranged and associated in the body.
Proof.- (1:1) The order and connection of ideas is the same (II[vii] )
as the order and connection of things, and vice vers? the order and
connection of things is the same (II:[vi] Coroll. and II:[vii] ) as
the order and connection of ideas. (2) Wherefore, even as the order
and connection of ideas in the mind takes place according to the order
and association of modifications of the body (II:[xviii] ), so vice versa
(III:[ii] ) the order and connection of modifications of the body takes
place in accordance with the manner, in which thoughts and the ideas of
things are arranged and associated in the mind. Q.E.D.
PROP. [II] If we remove a disturbance of the spirit,
or emotion, from the thought of an external
cause, and unite it to other thoughts
then will the love or hatred towards that
external cause, and also the vacillations
of spirit which arise from these emotions,
be destroyed.
Proof.- (2:1) That, which constitutes the reality of love or hatred,
is pleasure or pain, accompanied by the idea of an external cause
(III:[De.vi] III:[De.vii] ); wherefore, when this cause is removed,
the reality of love or hatred is removed with it; therefore these
emotions and those which arise therefrom are destroyed.
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