E5P28

Proposition 28 — Part V

English (Elwes 1883)also show

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

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.

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.