Substance and immanent cause

Spinoza’s distinction between substance and modes explains finite things within nature. Immanent causation is a specific ontological thesis concerning causes and effects.

Spinoza is the representative here. Deleuze’s later interpretation has a separate card, preserving the distinction between source and reception.

Source

Baruch Spinoza, Ethica, Pars I, Definitiones III and V; Propositio XVIII.

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