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'Parmenides', 'Letters to Burcher De Volder' and 'The Ethics'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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We can easily think of nature as one individual [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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Nature has no particular goal in view, and final causes are mere human figments [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
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Spinoza strongly attacked teleology, which is the lifeblood of classical logos [Roochnik on Spinoza]
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For Spinoza eyes don't act for purposes, but follow mechanical necessity [Roochnik on Spinoza]
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Final causes are figments of human imagination [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
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An infinite line can be marked in feet or inches, so one infinity is twelve times the other [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
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In nature there is just one infinite substance [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
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The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration [Plato]
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Everything partakes of the One in some way [Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
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Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
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A final cause is simply a human desire [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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From a definite cause an effect necessarily follows [Spinoza]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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An entelechy is a law of the series of its event within some entity [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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The only permanence in things, constituting their substance, is a law of continuity [Leibniz]
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