abstract:I examine Spinoza’s use of the term quatenus. It is, I argue, an operator working in the context of a broader logical theory and blocking certain inferences that, according to critics such as Pierre Bayle, lead Spinoza’s metaphysical system into absurdities. I reconstruct this crucial theory from some treatises on logic to which Spinoza had access. I then show how a later logical theory—that of the Port-Royal Logic—does not permit Bayle’s troublesome inferences to be blocked by the use of terms like quatenus. Most likely, Bayle was thinking in terms of the later theory, Spinoza in terms of the earlier.

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Quatenus和斯宾诺莎的一元论

摘要：我研究了斯宾诺莎对术语quatenus 的使用。我认为，它是在更广泛的逻辑理论的背景下工作并阻止某些推论的算子，根据皮埃尔·贝勒等评论家的说法，将斯宾诺莎的形而上学系统引入荒谬。我从斯宾诺莎可以接触到的一些关于逻辑的论文中重建了这个重要的理论。然后，我将展示后来的逻辑理论——皇家港口逻辑理论——如何不允许使用像 quatenus 这样的术语来阻止 Bayle 麻烦的推论。最有可能的是，贝勒是根据后来的理论思考，而斯宾诺莎则是根据早期的理论。