PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: East Los Angeles College, Logical Truth, Baruch Spinoza
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Substance is that whose concept does not require the concept of another thing (or anything else) from which the concept is formed. Attribute- that which the intellect perceives as the essence of a substance. That which we conceive as constituting the essence of substance. Axioms are a kind of proposition that we know to be true, and our knowledge of the truth of the proposition is not grounded in the truth of any other. Rational self-evidence, common in rationalist epistemological arguments in regards to metaphysics. The rationale capacity to understand the meaning of the proposition do we see the truth. Axiom 3: issues: there is no cause, there can be no effect. If there is no determinate cause, it is impossible that an effect should follow. if. The very meaning of an effect is that its something caused. Given that an effect is that which is caused, this proposition is analytically true.
