thus bringing back the obverse figure of the norm
not sure if he means norm in the vector sense or in the common sense
[...] For Spinoza there is no power that is not immediately and fully actual. In other terms, there is no reserve in the Spinozist ontology. There is no unfulfilled or uneffectuated power that stands back, available for activation. Even when it can do very little, the conatus is always exhausting w…
But the sequence of causes and effects is in principle fully compatible with change. Stars die that once shone; the earth that was calm suddenly opens up; hills that used to be part of the landscape collapse in an earthquake – and are no longer there. None of this, which can only be called ‘chang…
a lacuna inscribed in the mind’s very nature as finite mode
the infinite complexity, synchronic as well as diachronic
