Q.E.D.
Note .-- We have thus removed the cause which is commonly assigned for error.

For we have shown above, that falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge involved in ideas which are fragmentary and confused.

Wherefore, a false idea, inasmuch as it is false, does not involve certainty.

When we say, then, that a man acquiesces in what is false, and that he has no doubts on the subject, we do not say that he is certain, but only that he does not doubt, or that he acquiesces in what is false, inasmuch as there are no reasons, which should cause his imagination to waver (see II.xliv.

note).