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J. L. Austin once said to me, of a certain philosophical opinion of Leibniz’s, that ‘It is a very great mistake, and only a very great philosopher could have made it.’ In that paradoxical remark there is at least this much truth: a philosopher can be led into error by the very power of his thought, making serious mistakes that he might not have made if he had seen less and probed less deeply. In this paper I shall illustrate that with an example, namely Spinoza’s profoundly wrong view that what we ordinarily call error is really a species of ignorance. My account of this will involve Spinoza’s doctrine of systematic parallelism between the mental and the physical. For a start, I shall devote two sections to explaining what that doctrine is and why Spinoza held it. .
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