"thought & extension (the only two that Spinoza ever refers to ), is or can be conceived by “the intellect” as being identical with one another" For S...
"God does not, can not, love us, but that we should love God." This is because Spinoza's God is deeply narcissistic. "God loves himself with an infini...
No one can know what is logically entailed by that idea because no one can know if it is logically coherent in the first place. If it is not -perhaps ...
There is no such thing as "quantum vacuum" because there cannot be states with zero energy. You mistake the subject of a thought-experiment for realit...
Maybe you don't think it has, but it does nevertheless. "According to present-day understanding of what is called the vacuum state or the quantum vacu...
Yes. Exactly. If something has activities, it necessarily has temporal parts. Activities are events and as such they take place in a specific period o...
Is this your culture of argumentation? I'm sick of your ad hominem remarks. I have presented a number of arguments, while you are apparently unable to...
NIce explanation, but irrelevant. Please give me an example of anything (X and Y) that satisfies 1), 2) and 3). So the substance is either "watering" ...
No. All contingent existence is illusory. If you don't want to interpret Spinoza as contradicting himself, you must acknowledge this. To see why, here...
Modes, according to Spinoza, are "God considered as affected". So it is all about "aspect-seeing", if you wish. Let me return to the water example. Sp...
I don't agree.The "everyday world" is substance itself perceived in a confused and inadequate way through the senses. But, for Spinoza, even reason is...
Ontological nihilism is the philosophical position that nothing exists. Spinoza comes very close to it. In its normal use, the meaning of the verb "ex...
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