4p11d.md (381B)
1 In so far as we conceive a thing to be necessary, we, 2 to that extent, affirm its existence; on the other hand we deny 3 a thing's existence, in so far as we conceive it not to be 4 necessary (I. xxxiii. note. i.); wherefore (IV. ix.) an emotion 5 towards that which is necessary is, other conditions being equal, 6 more intense than an emotion that which is non–necessary. Q.E.D. 7 8