Single Idea 21860

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism]

Full Idea

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Gist of Idea

Ideas and things have identical connections and order

Source

Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], II Pr 07)

Book Reference

Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.50


A Reaction

I hadn't registered until Beth Lord pointed it out that this is Spinoza's parallelism of the mental and the physicalism, which seems to be roughly the same as the views of Leibniz and Malebranche, but with a different explanation.