3p52d.md (809B)
1 As soon as we conceive an object which we have seen in 2 conjunction with others, we at once remember those others (II. 3 xviii. and note), and thus we pass forthwith from the 4 contemplation of one object to the contemplation of another 5 object. And this is the case with the object, which we conceive 6 to have no property that is not common to many. For we thereupon 7 assume that we are regarding therein nothing, which we have not 8 before seen in conjunction with other objects. But when we 9 suppose that we conceive an object something special, which we 10 have never seen before, we must needs say that the mind, while 11 regarding that object, has in itself nothing which it can fall to 12 regarding instead thereof; therefore it is determined to the 13 contemplation of that object only. Therefore an object, &c. 14 Q.E.D. 15 16