E2A5: "We neither feel nor perceive any singular things [NS: or anything of Natura naturata], except bodies and modes of thinking. See the postulates after P13" (Ethics in E. Curley's translation)
So, do such feelings/perceptions cross the attribute barrier (E2p7)? That is, somehow an individual's feelings/perceptions can be responsive to modes in both attributes? Or should we think of this axiom as saying that the intellect perceives (pure) modes of thought (in the manner of E1D4&e5p40) and that the imagination feels modes of extension (and the ways in which ideas are inadequate).
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