This proposition builds a clear delineation between the causes of knowledge and falsehood. In Spinoza's framework, causality is all important as power lies within the causal chain.
Cognitio primi generis unica est falsitatis causa, secundi autem et tertii est necessario vera.
Knowledge of the first kind is the sole cause of falsehood, moreover [knowledge] of the second and third [kind] is true necessarily.
DEMONSTRATIO: Ad primi generis cognitionem illas omnes ideas diximus in præcedenti scholio pertinere quæ sunt inadæquatæ et confusæ atque adeo (per propositionem 35 hujus) hæc cognitio unica est falsitatis causa. Deinde ad cognitionem secundi et tertii illas pertinere diximus quæ sunt adæquatæ adeoque (per propositionem 34 hujus) est necessario vera. Q.E.D.
We stated in the preceding scholium that, due to the knowledge of the first kind, pertain to all those ideas which are inadequate and confused and so to that degree (by IIP35) this knowledge is the sole cause of falsehood. Then we stated that, due to the knowledge of the second of third kind, pertain to those which are adequate and so to that degree (by IIP34) are true necessarily.
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