Single Idea 17184

[catalogued under 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory]

Full Idea

Nothing exists from whose nature an effect does not follow.

Gist of Idea

All natures of things produce some effect

Source

Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], I Pr 36)

Book Reference

Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.34


A Reaction

I take it that this is because it is analytic that essences produce effects, since that is the point of the concept of an essence - as the source of the explanations of the effects.