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“IV. (9) 

The understanding 
                   forms positive ideas 
              before 
                  forming negative ideas.

V. (108:10) 

It perceives things not so much under the condition
   of duration as under a certain form of eternity, and in an
   infinite number; or rather in perceiving things it does not
   consider either their number or duration, whereas, in imagining
   them, it perceives them in a determinate number, duration, and quantity.”

--- Benedictus de Spinoza. “Improvement of the Understanding.”