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Proposition — Part V

Latin

Conatus seu cupiditas cognoscendi res tertio cognitionis genere oriri non potest ex primo, at quidem ex secundo cognitionis genere.

English (Elwes 1883)

The endeavour or desire to know things by the third kind of knowledge cannot arise from the first, but from the second kind of knowledge.

Modern English

The *conatus*, or desire, to know things by the third kind of knowledge cannot arise from the first kind of knowledge, but can arise from the second.