Full Idea
The more reality or being a thing possesses, the more attributes belong to it.
Gist of Idea
The more reality a thing has, the more attributes it has
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], I Pr 09)
Book Reference
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.9
A Reaction
This commitment to degrees of existence (which I find baffling) is presumably to enable God to be the thing with infinite attributes, and an infinite degree of Being. What percentage of Being would you say you've got (on a good day)?
Related Idea
Idea 17177 In nature there is just one infinite substance [Spinoza]