Curley, for example, holds that the identity is not one that holds between any given attribute and the substance, but rather between the totality of the attributes and the substance (Curley, 1988, 30). Bennett, on the other hand, believes Spinoza is simply overstating the case (Bennett, 1984, 64).
Hence an entity just is the totality of its attributes.
For example, the construal of the infinity of attributes as numeric or as totality affects the number of attributes involved, and thus alters the characterization.
Because although Revis approaches the level of the players that he listed, his game is not defined by speed, or strength, or any single attribute, but rather by the totality of his skills.
Second, almost ninety per cent of these prisoners had difficulties with "irrational anger," compared with just three per cent of the general population.* Haney attributed this to the extreme restriction, the totality of control, and the extended absence of any opportunity for happiness or joy.
Thus, the purported lack of difference between treated and control hives is arbitrarily attributed to the lack of effect of thiamethoxam rather than to the totality of confounding factors.
The totality of it matters.
It's the totality of the thing.
"It's the totality of them".
The totality of eigenvalues is a set.
