And for this reason, there is an exact correspondence between them: "The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things".
The distinctive character of Spinoza's epistemological rationalism is rooted in his principle that "the order and connection of ideas is the order and connection of things".
Or, as Spinoza notes in Proposition Seven, "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things".
The kinds of things we noted, the connection of things by the simultaneity rather than by their substantive connection is as common in business firms as it is in educational institutions.
In Ethics 2p7, he argues that "the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things,"[8] which is to say that for each extended object, there is a parallel idea.
Exercising our reason, that is, understanding the nature and connection of things is itself a way of increasing our power, becoming more active, and passing to a state of greater perfection.
Leibniz concludes this section with his celebrated doctrine of marks and traces: "when we consider carefully the connection of things, we can say that from all time in Alexander's soul there are vestiges of everything that has happened to him and marks of everything that will happen to him and even traces of everything that happens in the universe, even though God alone could recognize them all".
But what makes this debate different from those about saving automobile makers or banks and whoever else is in line for a bailout are the multiple layers of connection to things that might seem to have nothing to do with two-by-fours, plywood or even jobs.
"It is about those attentive moments of connections and discovery of things.
"Joe said, 'I want to do this as a Cassavetes-meets-French Connection" kind of thing.' You could tell he'd done his homework.
