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Setup

  1. 1. Substance
  2. 2. Attribute
  3. 3. Mode
  4. 4. God
  5. 5. In-itself / in-another split

Demonstration

  1. 6. Substance is prior to its modifications
  2. 7. No two substances can share an attribute
  3. 8. One substance cannot be produced by another
  4. 9. Existence belongs to the nature of substance
  5. 10. Every substance is necessarily infinite
  6. 11. Each attribute is conceived through itself

Consequence

  1. 12. God necessarily exists
  2. 13. Besides God no substance can be conceived
  3. 14. Whatever is, is in God
  4. 15. Infinite things follow from divine nature
  5. 16. Individual things are modifications of God's attributes

Recap

  1. 17. Thought and Extension are attributes we know
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