Reply to Yenter: Spinoza, Number, and Diversity

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2):365-374 (2016)
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Clarke attacks Spinoza's monism on the grounds that it cannot explain how a multiplicity of things follows from one substance, God. This article argues that Clarke assumes that Spinoza's God is countable. It then sketches a way in which multiplicity can follow from God's uncountable nature.

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