ABSTRACT
The arguments for the dominance of the attribute of thought establish only that an order of internal relations is dominant in the system of Spinoza, that is, the order of the intellect. T. L. S. Sprigge suggests that the attribute of extension, as it is in itself, is one of the absolute’s forms of life and that it therefore expresses the absolute in as much as its complete reality is needed to explain the incomplete reality of extension. Sprigge insists on the unique intemality of extension and every other attribute as it is in itself, but he suggests that experience in the absolute is one more concrete than that of any of the attributes. While developing an understanding of Spinoza’s attributes very like Sprigge’s, Armour objects to Sprigge’s absolute idealism on grounds that it fails to explain the actualization of the absolute in experience.
