Spinoza outlines the fundamental basis for memory and thus thought and imagination by positing that the body is changed in some physical way that gives rise to a cognitive experience which reflects the change which occurred physically.
Corpus humanum multas pati potest mutationes et nihilominus retinere objectorum impressiones seu vestigia (de quibus vide postulatum 5 partis II) et consequenter easdem rerum imagines; quarum definitionem vide in scholio propositionis 17 partis II.
The body of a human is able to endure changes and nothing less to retain the impressions of objects or vestiges (about which see II Post.5) and consequently the same images of things; whose definition see in IIP17S.
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