 It is not difficult, Arnauld says, to show that the first conjunct, so understood, is false. For “it destroys the nature of intelligent beings, who would not be free if they did not, as real causes, form in themselves the determination of their will toward particular goods”. (As Arnauld points out, the italicized words are Malebranche’s.) The second conjunct of the principle is dispatched in a similar way: