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Earlier, I noted that Spinoza thinks infinitely many non-substantial objects exist: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many ways, i.e., everything which can fall under an infinite intellect" (Ip16).
God is now described not so much as the underlying substance of all things, but as the universal, immanent and sustaining cause of all that exists: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many modes, (i.e., everything that can fall under an infinite intellect)".
Jefferson: Not to flog a deceased equine, but let us suggest that man, with his infinite intellect, invents a series of machines, interconnected to one another, as if caught in a net, to purchase goods.
In this respect Maimon revives the Leibnizian notion that there is not a difference in kind, but only in degree, between a finite and an infinite intellect.
Spinoza's God is an "infinite intellect", (Ethics 2p11c) all knowing, (2p3) and capable of loving both himself and us, insofar as we are part of his perfection.
The objectivists, by and large, instead claim that it is the infinite intellect that perceives the attribute as in fact constituting the essence of substance.
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He had infinite patience, a keen intellect, and a caring and generous spirit.
It is a space where I will never be exoticized, and where any criticism of opinion or intellect comes from a place of infinite mercy.
Scotus then argues that a being enjoying the triple primacy is endowed with intellect and will, and that any such being is infinite.
The second has no basis in reality but is purely a creation of the mind; it arises out of the intellect's activity of comparing, which makes possible its infinite multiplication (DM 39, 2, 23; 1861, 25:517a).
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