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Baruch Spinoza’s ”Ethics” (Part 2/5)

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The Infinite Possibility of Thought

All modes have God as a cause only so far as they are ascribed to attributes that are tethered to God. If we have an idea of something that doesn't exist, it exists in the infinite idea of God. The processes by which we actually arrive at thought or at an idea, we go through thought and the process of existing in space - both originate from the same point. So here we find an extension of that while being cautious, of course, while leaving room to acknowledge the place of the body.

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