Everything is conceivable: a note on an unused axiom in Spinoza's Ethics

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3):496-507 (2021)
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Spinoza's Ethics self-consciously follows the example of Euclid and other geometers in its use of axioms and definitions as the basis for derivations of hundreds of propositions of philosophical si...

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Justin Vlasits
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How Spinoza conceives being: a reply to Vlasits' “Note on an Unused Axiom”.Daniel Schneider - 2022 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (1):44-57.

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Spinoza on Inherence, Causation, and Conception.Yitzhak Y. Melamed - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3):365-386.
Euclid's elements and the axiomatic method.Ian Mueller - 1969 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20 (4):289-309.

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