xvi.); thus we shall both hate and love the same thing.
Q.E.D.
Note .-- This disposition of the mind, which arises from two contrary emotions, is called vacillation; it stands to the emotions in the same relation as doubt does to the imagination (II.xliv.

note); vacillation and doubt do not differ one from the other, except as greater differs from less.

But we must bear in mind that I have deduced this vacillation from causes, which give rise through themselves to one of the emotions, and to the other accidentally.

I have done this, in order that they might be more easily deduced from what went before; but I do not deny that vacillation of the disposition generally arises from an object, which is the efficient cause of both emotions.

The human body is composed (II.Post.