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187. - Truth

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Kristin Primus
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

The aim of philosophy, according to Spinoza, is truth (verum, veritas) (see TTP14). In the Ethics, Spinoza argues that there are two kinds of cognition that involve true ideas and “teach us to distinguish the true from the false”: reason and intuitive knowledge (E2p41–42).

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 549 - 551
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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