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Proposition — Part III

Latin

Amor et odium exempli gratia erga Petrum destruitur si tristitia quam hoc et lætitia quam ille involvit, ideæ alterius causæ jungatur et eatenus uterque diminuitur quatenus imaginamur Petrum non solum fuisse alterutrius causam.

English (Elwes 1883)

Love or hatred towards, for instance, Peter is destroyed, if the pleasure involved in the former, or the pain involved in the latter emotion, be associated with the idea of another cause: and will be diminished in proportion as we conceive Peter not to have been the sole cause of either emotion.

Modern English

Love or hatred toward, say, Peter is destroyed if the sadness that hatred involves, or the joy that love involves, is joined to the idea of another cause, and each is diminished to the degree that we imagine Peter was not the sole cause of that affect.

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