Quote #45
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
More from Baruch Spinoza
- Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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- He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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- He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
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