4p1d.md (553B)
1 Falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge 2 which inadequate ideas involve (II. xxxv.), nor have they any 3 positive quality on account of which they are called false (II. 4 xxxiii.); contrariwise, in so far as they are referred to God, 5 they are true (II. xxxii.). Wherefore, if the positive quality 6 possessed by a false idea were removed by the presence of what is 7 true, in virtue of its being true, a true idea would then be 8 removed by itself, which (IV. iii.) is absurd. Therefore, no 9 positive quality possessed by a false idea, &c. Q.E.D. 10 11