"To have a true idea is only an expression for knowing a thing perfectly, or as well as possible. No one, indeed, can doubt this, unless he thinks that an idea is something lifeless, like a picture on a panel, and not a mode of thinking — namely, the very act of understanding. ...Even as light displays both itself and darkness, so is truth a standard both of itself and of falsity. ...our mind, in so far as it perceives things truly, is part of the infinite intellect of God; therefore, the clear and distinct ideas of the mind are as necessarily true as the ideas of God."
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