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and, says Spinoza, the more we understand individual things the more we understand God. By refining our knowledge of things, we can move from (1) imagination, to (2) reason, and finally to (3) intuition. Through intuition we can grasp the whole system of nature. At this level we can understand the particular things we encountered on the first level in a new way, and now we see them as part of the whole scheme. This kind of knowing proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.Philosophy pg 252 by S. E. Stumpf

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