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All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', 'Sentences' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]

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

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

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God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]