5p12d.md (548B)
1 Things, which we clearly and distinctly understand, 2 are either the common properties of things or deductions 3 therefrom (see definition of Reason, II. xl. note ii.), and are 4 consequently (by the last Prop.) more often aroused in us. 5 Wherefore it may more readily happen, that we should contemplate 6 other things in conjunction with these than in conjunction with 7 something else, and consequently (II. xviii.) that the images of 8 the said things should be more often associated with the images 9 of these than with the images of something else. Q.E.D. 10 11