...Chapter 3 above we touched very briefly on Spinoza's cosmic parallelism, encapsulated in the proposition: 'The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things' (£, IIP7). His idea was of course that, pace Descartes, there is one substance, God-or-Nature, of...

...whether Spinoza would have been willing to speak of hypotheses or assumptions. We read in the Ethics that 'the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things'.1 In the proof of this proposition he remarks that its truth is clear from the fourth axiom...

...truth is made. If the former tradition has given up the strong belief, best articulated by Spinoza, that "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things," it nevertheless continues to insist that the charge of language is to represent adequately the truth...

...assumption that she calls "the credo of all rationalistic metaphysics," exemplified by Spinoza's claim that "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things" (Spinoza, Ethics, II, 7). She notes further that as soon as it is outgrown in one form, it is replaced...

...Spinoza's doctrine of the relation of the ordo et connexio idearum to the ordo et connexio rerum - 'The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things' (Ethics, part 2, proposition 7; cf. NS 238, 'The order of ideas must follow the order of institutions')...

...the cause insofar as he is affected by another definite mode of thinking, and so ad infinitum. But the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes (Pr. 7, II). Therefore, an individual idea is caused by another idea; ie, God insofar as he...

...infinite, but in so far as He is affected by another idea of an individual thing (Prop. 9, pt. 2). But the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes (Prop. 7, pt. 2). This idea or knowledge of the mind, therefore, follows in God, and is related...

...the interpretation I put on Proposition Seven of Part Two of Spinoza's most famous work, the Ethics, that 'the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things', with its Scholium commenting that this had been 'glimpsed by those Hebrews who hold that God, God's...

...sense it may be taken as equivalent to Spinoza's conception of substance, without assuming a priori that "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things." We have to do here only with things as experienced. We might, however, agree to Spinoza's axiom that...

...counterparts. It is, for example, classically expressed in Spinoza's assertion that, 246 Chapter 6 The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things. (Ethics, Part Two, Prop. VII) But I know of no philosophy built around the denialof this maxim. Nevertheless,...