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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Ethics' and 'Summa totius logicae'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

5640	Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

17211

Understanding is the sole aim of reason, and the only profit for the mind [Spinoza]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / e. Belief holism

21801

Unlike Descartes' atomism, Spinoza held a holistic view of belief [Spinoza, by Schmid]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

21863

You only know you are certain of something when you actually are certain of it [Spinoza]

17199

A man who assents without doubt to a falsehood is not certain, but lacks a cause to make him waver [Spinoza]

17193

True ideas intrinsically involve the highest degree of certainty [Spinoza]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

5638	'I think' is useless, because it is contingent, and limited to the first person [Spinoza, by Scruton]