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1 The ideas of the modifications of the human body 2 involve the nature both of the human body and of external bodies 3 (II. xvi.); they must involve the nature not only of the human 4 body but also of its parts; for the modifications are modes 5 (Post. iii.), whereby the parts of the human body, and, 6 consequently, the human body as a whole are affected. But (by 7 II. xxiv., xxv.) the adequate knowledge of external bodies, as 8 also of the parts composing the human body, is not in God, in so 9 far as he is regarded as affected by the human mind, but in so 10 far as he is regarded as affected by other ideas. These ideas of 11 modifications, in so far as they are referred to the human mind 12 alone, are as consequences without premisses, in other words, 13 confused ideas. Q.E.D. 14 15