It's one or two things.

dialectics that resolves the conflict between the idea that “two things are in conflict” and the idea that “there is one thing” by considering that there are two extensions of the one thing.

• spinosa comprehensive the idea that “there is a conflict between spirit and matter” and that “there is only one God” with the idea that “both matter and spirit are extensions of God.”

• single or multiple

Related items: - monism 、 dualism - Parable of the Beard 、 If you only look at the ends, they appear to be individual.

2024-08-26 Two Sides of One Thing said almost the same thing. Connected via Spinoza’s “Extension of God”.

• One thing has multiple facets.

• Each aspect is not “the same thing” but “different,” but they are “Different Aspects of the same thing.

• “Different aspects of the same thing” reminded me of divine extension.

• blind spot card 5

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