One axiom in this book states that it's impossible that an effect can follow if "no definite cause be granted", and the author claims he does not know how to reckon a man who hangs himself in a section on Buridan's Ass. The author's example of a circle that exists in nature and an idea of a circle being "one and the same thing" is summarized in its Seventh Proposition, namely "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things". This work's first section contains a series of definitions, including one where God is understood to be "a being absolutely infinite", eventually implying that "except God, no substance can be or be conceived". Containing sections like "Of Human Bondage" and "Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind" and presented in Geometric Order, for 10 points, name this ma
One axiom in this book states that it's impossible that an effect can follow if "no definite cause be granted", and the author claims he does not know how to reckon a man who hangs himself in a section on Buridan's Ass. The author's example of a circle that exists in nature and an idea of a circle being "one and the same thing" is summarized in its Seventh Proposition, namely "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things". This work's first section contains a series of definitions, including one where God is understood to be "a being absolutely infinite", eventually implying that "except God, no substance can be or be conceived". Containing sections like "Of Human Bondage" and "Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind" and presented in Geometric Order, for 10 points, name this magnum opus by the author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Baruch Spinoza.
One axiom in this book states that it's impossible that an effect can follow if "no definite cause be granted", and the author claims he does not know how to reckon a man who hangs himself in a section on Buridan's Ass.
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