Hi Donovan and All, Thank you for offering an explanation of what you had in mind when you provided what you now say are your own descriptions of the terms...
... You didn't answer my question: I offered these as my own descriptions. Where in Spinoza's text is he at variance with my descriptions? ... You literally...
===== [3] (1) I therefore debated whether it would not be possible to arrive at the new principle, or at any rate at a certainty concerning its existence... ...
===== [3] (1) I therefore debated whether it would not be possible to arrive at the new principle, or at any rate at a certainty concerning its existence... ...
Hi Donovan and All, Perhaps it's just my own imagination but you seem a bit worked up over something. Ethics Part 3 comes to mind as fitting in somewhat with...
Terry, I began to scan your post, hoping that you might have snapped out of it. I don't think you can reasonably expect me to go along with you very far...
Hi Donovan, Does the quote you provided from the Short Treatise, in particular this part where he is describing the difference in the effect on the mind of ...
... My descriptions are making enough sense to you for you to realize that they do have something to do with the citation from Short Treatise. Spinoza is...
Hi Donovan, You wrote: ... This sounds quite interesting to me and I look forward to whatever you are able to put forth as these glimmers hopefully grow. If it...
Rundle Donovan, I have been following your posts over the last week, especially the last few days, and day. I have been working on this problem through other ...
Hi Rundle, list members, Rundle Donovan wrote on 5/26/07 11:28 PM: (snip) ... (snip) I just joined this list a few days ago, and I can't claim much expertise...
Thanks for your response. Spinoza certainly agrees with you that "the mind is not localized to the head/brain." I didn't intend to give the impression that I...
I accidentally sent Greg's post without reply. I'd wanted to say thanks! This was just the sort of information I had hoped for. Armed with this knowledge, I...
Hi All, As Danielle has pointed out, and I agree, the Mind is not localized to the head/brain. Yet most of what we mistake for Reality involves the motion and...
===== [32] (1) That this is the path pursued by the understanding may be readily seen, when we understand the nature of the method for finding out the truth,...
I left out the footnotes in the last post, and the subject line should have included paragraphs up through 35. [l] and [m] could be notes Spinoza made to...
I was reflecting on various statements by Spinoza to the effect that: E5PROP. XXIV. The more we understand particular things, the more do we understand God. ...
[39] (1) We thus easily understand how, in proportion as it acquires new ideas, the mind simultaneously acquires fresh instruments for pursuing its inquiries...
Hi All, At the beginning of Part 2 of the Ethics Spinoza opens with this comment: ===== E2: Preface: I now pass on to explaining the results, which must...
Terry,  I begin with the geometrical example which I believe raises no essential problems. Relative to that illustration the difference in the two...
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Hi Stuart, I had asked you in our previous discussion a few years back, and then again in my more recent message, if you had any thoughts on: ... ...but it...
===== [41] (1) We may add that the idea in the world of thought is in the same case as its correlate in the world of reality. (2) If, therefore, there be...
Recently, we studied the early paragraphs of TIE which include the statement: ===== "Although these intervals were at first rare, and of very short duration,...
After several attempts to reduce this post and break it into parts, I found the ideas in these paragraphs too interdependent to separate, so, unable to devote...
Hi Donovan and All, Perhaps we will be getting to all this later but I thought it might help here to flesh out a bit what we are covering at this point in The ...
... The "true proposition" in my post (end result of a demonstration of Godel's theorem) is what Spinoza calls a "thing of reason." That is, it is nothing but...
Hi Donovan, Thank you for fleshing out a bit more your interpretation of Spinoza's use of reason: ... I agree with the above and I presume that you would...
