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Ideas for 'On the Natural Faculties', 'The Ethics' and 'Ways of Worldmaking'

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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

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We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen]

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Faculties are either fictions, or the abstract universals of ideas [Spinoza]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 8. Remembering Contiguity

4832	If the body is affected by two things together, the imagining of one will conjure up the other [Spinoza]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Our own force of persevering is nothing in comparison with external forces [Spinoza]

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As far as possible, everything tries to persevere [Spinoza]

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The conatus (striving) of mind and body together is appetite, which is the essence of man [Spinoza]