Ethics, Postulates I: samenvatting

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1. Six postulates describe the body's complex parts, its dependence on other bodies, and the lasting physical effects of contact.
2. The mind's perceptions reflect bodily changes, allowing absent things to seem present and previously joined impressions to produce memories.
3. Knowledge of the body, external things, and the mind remains incomplete when it depends only on particular bodily impressions.
4. The argument explains error as missing knowledge rather than a positive feature of ideas, using freedom and the sun as examples.
5. Properties shared equally across bodies support adequate ideas, and ideas derived from adequate ideas remain adequate.
6. The speaker traces confused general terms to the body's limited capacity for images and to differences in bodily experience.

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