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168. - Sive

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

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Edwin Curley
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

Sive (or seu) is a disjunctive operator standardly translated by “or” in English. Sometimes a translator will italicize the “or” to indicate that when it translates sive/seu, “or” may have a special meaning. But scholars disagree about what that meaning might be. The most common view is that Spinoza uses these operators to signify that the terms or phrases so disjoined are equivalent or can be used for one another indifferently. (See, for example, Steenbakkers 2011.) This is often true, but the situation is complex.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 488 - 489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Steenbakkers, P. (2011). Sive. In van Bunge, W., et al. (eds), The Continuum Companion to Spinoza (pp. 312–13). Bloomsbury.Google Scholar

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  • Sive
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.168
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  • Sive
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.168
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  • Sive
  • Edited by Karolina Hübner, Cornell University, New York, Justin Steinberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.168
Available formats
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