Sunday, March 22, 2020

Spinoza's Ethics: I.A6: Correspondence

Here it seems that Spinoza is describing how knowing and being operate: they correspond completely. It's axiomatic. Left unclear is whether this is Knowing and Being or whether this is a function of the relationship of the attributes of thought and extension. However, it's not necessary to take a decision, as this axiom may operate fundamentally for both areas. (As for whether the iterations of an idea of an idea is a thing, it may be so in the same sense of a thing of a thing ad infinitum.)

Idea vera debet cum suo ideato convenire.

Translated as,

A true idea must agree with its object.

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