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Demonstration — Part V

Latin

Patet. Nam quatenus concipimus mentem aptam esse ad res hoc cognitionis genere intelligendum eatenus eandem determinatam concipimus ad res eodem cognitionis genere intelligendum et consequenter (per 1 affectuum definitionem) quo mens ad hoc aptior est, eo magis hoc cupit. Q.E.D.

English (Elwes 1883)

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Modern English

This is evident. Insofar as we conceive the mind to be capable of understanding things by this kind of knowledge, we conceive it as determined to understand things by that same kind. Consequently (E3DA1), the more capable the mind is of this, the more it desires it. Q.E.D.