John: In your reply to Terry's (as usual) excellent response, you point out that [even] Spinoza's intuition stands on the shoulders of reason. Right, but the...
Hello Frank, Indeed, and you have other riddles, like our preferences in/understanding of art and humor. But the question here is whether *for Spinoza*...
Dear John (Hmmmm): You wrote... "...these are merely several not yet well understood refinements of the process of sentient knowing caused as everything else...
Along with this discussion, I am having fun with evolution and the fact that chimps are my cousins. So I'm asking publicly why they don't prove it to be true?...
John wrote... "...the question here is whether *for Spinoza* intuition stands on the shoulders of reason or not." ...and Terry replied... "Spinoza uses...
Dear friends, Thank you very much, Frank and Terry, for your very interesting remarks. Anne and I are off to France for a short holiday and I shall study them ...
Hi John, I hope you have an enjoyable holiday. A change of outer scene now and then can help us to gain a new perspective on our habit-patterns of memory as it...
Hasn't it ever bothered any one that Spinoza wouldn't publish ETHICS during his lifetime? Doesn't this suggest that ETHICS has a practical application? And...
Hi Ethel, ... From: "ethel jean saltz" <nietgal@...> ... No, it has not bothered me in any way. ... I cannot myself see any connection between these...
Dear Terry: Maybe these few brief statements will clear up our differences. 1. All effects have causes. 2. Intuitions are real, therefore they are effects,...
Dear Ethel: You wrote... "Hasn't it ever bothered any one that Spinoza wouldn't publish ETHICS during his lifetime?" Yes, the question has "bothered" me,...
Hi Frank, You refer to 'false intuitions' like; "A religious monkey might intuitively understand that the banana high up in a tree can be obtained only by...
Dear Terry: The bit about "false intuitions" requires perhaps a bit more thought than you have been willing to give it, but consider that all people experience...
Hi Frank, You say; "As to the real question, 'whether intuitive knowledge stands on the shoulders of reason,'" To me, if one thing stands on the shoulders of...
... "By abstraction we can say that Reason and Intuition are related by both involving "adequate ideas" but again, what actual connection does he indicate...
Well, I decided to see Spinoza's use of the word "intuition". To my surprise it occurs only once. I even tried "intuitions" and got no results. It's a lot to...
Hi Frank, I'm afraid that my understanding is too limited to be able to follow your statements and see any significant connection to Spinoza's expressed ideas....
Hi Ethel, Try "intuitive" and "intuitively" and you might get a few more hits but of course he uses "Third Kind" (of Knowledge/Knowledge of the) much more ...
... <snip> ... <snip> Dear Ethel: The proposition you cited, from adequate ideas, adequate ideas follow, is syntactically similar to "all white swans are...
Hi All, That Spinoza had a keen interest in science and that he strove to examine and understand external bodies and the human body, as far possible using the...
... Terry: I completely agree with everything in your most recent post, particularly... "I would hope that all readers of these messages would at least have ...
Dear Terry: After posting my last comment before this one, I found reason to reflect on our differences. I wondered how I could so completely agree with your...
... =================== The idea of "the Holy Spirit" sudden intrigued me. So I consulted my cdrom Encyc Judaica. Only recently I discovered that belief in...
Hi Frank, Thank you for expressing your thoughts so openly. This is sometimes hard to do in "public" (well, 133 or so otherwise strangers is, in a way, ...
http://home.europa.com/~telscope/binotele.htm See the article on Spinoza. I found it very informative in understanding the new Galilean/Measurement Science of...
Dear Terry, Frank and all, The following observations by Terry are, I believe, very indicative of the differences with my own non-dual interpretation of the...
Please forgive the intrusion on this list. I have modified my web site and included the following note there and which I also wish to apply to any past ...
