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PROP. XXXIII. There is nothing positive in ideas, which causes them to be called false.
Proof.—If this be denied, conceive, if possible, a positive mode of thinking, which should constitute the distinctive quality of falsehood. Such a mode of thinking cannot be in God (II. xxxii.); external to God it cannot be or be conceived (I. xv.). Therefore there is nothing positive in ideas which causes them to be called false. Q.E.D.
-- Spinoza, Ethics. Part II.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#chap02