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Proposition — Part II

Latin

Esse formale idearum Deum quatenus tantum ut res cogitans consideratur, pro causa agnoscit et non quatenus alio attributo explicatur. Hoc est tam Dei attributorum quam rerum singularium ideæ non ipsa ideata sive res perceptas pro causa efficiente agnoscunt sed ipsum Deum quatenus est res cogitans.

English (Elwes 1883)

The actual being of ideas owns God as its cause, only in so far as he is considered as a thinking thing, not in so far as he is unfolded in any other attribute; that is, the ideas both of the attributes of God and of particular things do not own as their efficient cause their objects (ideata) or the things perceived, but God himself in so far as he is a thinking thing.

Modern English

The formal being of ideas has God as its cause only insofar as he is considered as a thinking thing, not insofar as he is expressed through any other attribute. That is: the ideas of God's attributes as well as of singular things have as their efficient cause not the objects of those ideas nor the things perceived, but God himself insofar as he is a thinking thing.

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