[The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ethics PREFACE 70/106
That, which is common to and a property of the human body and such other bodies as are wont to affect the human body, and which is present equally in each part of either, or in the whole, will be represented by an adequate idea in the mind. Proof .-- If A be that, which is common to and a property of the human body and external bodies, and equally present in the human body and in the said external bodies, in each part of each external body and in the whole, there will be an adequate idea of A in God (II.vii.
Coroll.), both in so far as he has the idea of the human body, and in so far as he has the ideas of the given external bodies.
Let it now be granted, that the human body is affected by an external body through that, which it has in common therewith, namely, A; the idea of this modification will involve the property A (II.
xvi.), and therefore (II.vii.
Coroll.) the idea of this modification, in so far as it involves the property A, will be adequate in God, in so far as God is affected by the idea of the human body; that is (II.
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