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1 The knowledge of evil (IV. viii.) is pain, in so far 2 as we are conscious thereof. Now pain is the transition to a 3 lesser perfection (Def. of the Emotions, iii.) and therefore 4 cannot be understood through man's nature (III. vi., and vii.); 5 therefore it is a passive state (III. Def. ii.) which (III. iii.) 6 depends on inadequate ideas; consequently the knowledge thereof 7 (II. xxix.), namely, the knowledge of evil, is inadequate. 8 Q.E.D. 9 10