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>>7090347

But Spinoza doesn't say that substance is X and not-X in the same way. You as an embodied person can be, say, both hot and not hot at the same time, if you have one hand in a bucket of hot water and one hand in a bucket of cold water - you are X and not-X, though not in the same way, since one part of you is X while a separate part of you is not-X. So with Spinoza's substance, it can be X insofar as an individual mode is X, and not-X insofar as a different mode is not-X; it can also be X insofar as one of its infinite attributes is X, and not-X insofar as a different one of its infinite attributes is not-X.

No?