 Second, as inadequate, imaginative ideas won’t fully explain what they purport to be about. Arguably, the mind thinking them won’t possess all of the “premises” that necessarily conclude in the idea in question. Instead, that idea will have been produced by, and so will “involve”, the natures of the external causes that brought about the relevant affection of the body. Instead of being orderly connected to all their premises in the mind (according to what Spinoza calls the “order of the intellect”), imaginative ideas will be connected to one another according to the “common order of Nature” (E2p29s), that is in a way that reflects the order of our happenstance encounters with other bodies, and the idiosyncratic psychological associations such encounters generate: