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Coroll.), therefore (I.Ax.
vi.) they are all true.
Q.E.D. PROP.XXXIII.
There is nothing positive in ideas, which causes them to be called false. Proof .-- If this be denied, conceive, if possible, a positive mode of thinking, which should constitute the distinctive quality of falsehood.
Such a mode of thinking cannot be in God (II. xxxii.); external to God it cannot be or be conceived (I.xv.). Therefore there is nothing positive in ideas which causes them to be called false.
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