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Baruch Spinoza

Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation Section section-0093

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Canonical reference section-0093

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Émile Saisset or Paul Janet

Corollaire I : Il suit de là que c’est la seule imagination qui nous fait percevoir les choses comme contingentes, au regard du passé comme au regard de l’avenir.

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Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Corollary I: It follows that it is imagination alone that makes us perceive things as contingent, with respect both to the past and to the future.

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