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vii Preface xi Note on References and List of Abbreviations xvii Coordinates of a Conversation 1 Chapter One. Mutual Introductions 23 Similarities and Affinities 24 Rigor 26 Method 28 Insight 32 Chapter Two. Purposes and Ends 40 Activity and Purpose 42 Purpose and Responsibility 46 . . . and the World 48 End 49 Eternity 51 Spinoza’s Body 55 Life 57 Nothing 59 Silence 61 Chapter Three. Grammar 63 Not My Purpose . . . 63 History and the History of Philosophy 65 The History of Philosophy and Philosophy 66 Philosophy and the History of Science 68 ChAPter one Contents viii contents The History of Science, Language, and Philosophy Again 71 Grammar and Paradigm Change 73 From Grammar to Logic and Back 77 Teacher and Student 80 Wittgenstein’s Body 84 Telling Nonsense 86 Chapter Four. Strategies 88 Spinoza’s Strategy: First Round 88 Wittgenstein’s Position 89 Thinking of Strategy 90 My Strategy 92 The Strategy of the Tractatus: Opening Moves 97 Working from Within 100 The First Movement 102 Classifying Propositions 107 Performing Futility 110 Chapter Five. Organizing Content 113 Plans 114 Structures 121 Beginnings 125 Matching Constraints 130 Chapter Six. Metaphysics 137 Substance I 139 Spinoza’s Grammar 142 Spinoza’s Strategy: Second Round 145 Epistemology I 151 Language 155 Substance II 159 Bodies 165 Afterlife 168 Substance III 170 Chapter Seven. Matching Content 174 Spinoza’s Attributes 174 Psychoanalysis 177 Historical Materialism 181 Scientific Perspectives versus Logical Manifolds 183 Ideas versus Thoughts; Extended Modes versus Facts 185 Epistemology II 188 [3.84.228.68] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:33 GMT) contents ix Chapter Eight. Matching Form 194 Possible Facts versus Possible Extended Modes 194 Natural Space versus Logical Space 197 Order and Connection versus Form and Structure 200 The Metaphysical Subject 202 Fractals 204 Natural History 209 Physics 214 Natural Necessity versus Logical Possibility 219 Logic in God, Logic of God 225 Exodus: Toward History and Its Surprises 231 Notes 253 References 275 Index 285 ...