"I say that it belongs to the essence of a thing that which, given, the thing is also necessarily given, and taken away, the thing is also necessarily taken away; or that without which the thing can neither be nor be conceived, and vice versa, that which cannot be or be conceived without the thing."
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, trans. Samuel Shirley. Hackett 1992, Part II, p. 63; translation modified.
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