Spinoza, Benedict
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A seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who argued for a form of pantheism and set out his arguments like proofs in geometry. Spinoza earned a living by grinding lenses for spectacles and telescopes.
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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