...contemplation of the Buddhists: "This kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of the absolute essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things."10 Even Spinoza's idea of God, metaphysically mature as it is among the theological conceptions...

...what follows, which we shall call intuition (scientia intuitiva). Now this kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate , idea of the formal essence of certain...to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things. I shall illustrate these three by one example. Let three numbers be given to find the fourth, which...

...the third class of knowledge. Proof. — The third class of knowledge proceeds from the adequate idea of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things (see its def. in Note 2, Prop. 40, Part II.), and the more we understand things in this manner, the...

...a form of conception of his own, appropriate to his way of observ13. "This kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate Idea of the formal essence of certain...the adequate knowledge of the essence of things." Spinoza, Ethic, Bk. II, Prop. XL, Schol. 2. 14. An Jacobi, «. Mai 1786, Ooethee Briefe, VII, 214....

...above. tuitive Knowledge." This is defined in the Ethics (II, xl. S 2) as knowledge which "proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things." It is, in fact, a knowledge of the essence of things...

...a disconnected stage reached by a leap or by a mystical process. 'Now this kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain...of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.'1 This quotation seems to equate knowledge of the third with knowledge of the second kind;...

...and of whose formal essence I can hope to construct an adequate idea. He proposed, then, to proceed from an adequate idea of the 'formal essence' of certain attributes of God (alias nature) to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things. This seems to mean: if one can visualize...

...of the essence of individual things, and the notion that such knowledge follows from knowledge (or an 'adequate idea') of 'the formal essence of certain attributes of God'. Here, the claim is that knowledge of individuals proceeds from knowledge of infinite substance. Spinoza...

...what it starts from. Spinoza says that it takes one to an adequate cognition of the essences of things 'from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God', which in 5p25d is simplified to 'an adequate idea of certain attributes of God'. Have we an adequate...

...things in the world. Such knowledge, as Spinoza puts it, "advances from an adequate idea of the ... essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things" (E II, 40 S2). To know the existence of things as following from their essence is to know things as...