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Against Teleology and Abstraction

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is There a Sense of Functionality in the Abstraction?

Spinoza does not think that nature has a teleological ah, you know. And this is really important. Am, this anti teleological stance. I can go into that more later. Is there nothing maybe i'm rushing too far but so far, is there no sense of functionality? Like, in other word, when the person who has built the house says it is done. Was there, for spinoza, also a sort of functionality to that element of judgment, of doneness from the person thimselves, that subjective sense of perfection? That's a good question. Em, i i think he mostly regards it, i'm not sure if he regards it as a

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