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Ideas for 'On the Natural Faculties', 'The Ethics' and 'Letters to Des Bosses'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

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An 'attribute' is what the intellect takes as constituting an essence [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

17171

A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

17195

Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

17206

The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]

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There is active and passive power in the substantial chain and in the essence of a composite [Leibniz]

12783

Primitive force is what gives a composite its reality [Leibniz]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques

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The 'universal' term 'man' is just imagining whatever is the same in a multitude of men [Spinoza]