ethica

Spinozas ethics and various translations, edited for easy post processing.
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 1 This is also self–evident; for, if we say that white
 2 and black only agree in the fact that neither is red, we
 3 absolutely affirm that the do not agree in any respect.  So, if
 4 we say that a man and a stone only agree in the fact that both
 5 are finite–wanting in power, not existing by the necessity of
 6 their own nature, or, lastly, indefinitely surpassed by the power
 7 of external causes–we should certainly affirm that a man and a
 8 stone are in no respect alike; therefore, things which agree
 9 only in negation, or in qualities which neither possess, really
10 agree in no respect.
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