xxxii.).

Wherefore, if the positive quality possessed by a false idea were removed by the presence of what is true, in virtue of its being true, a true idea would then be removed by itself, which (IV.

iii.) is absurd.

Therefore, no positive quality possessed by a false idea, &c.

Q.E.D.
Note .-- This proposition is more clearly understood from II.
xvi.Coroll.ii.