Nelson, United Kingdom

Alcohol and Substance Misuse Work

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.nelson.ac.uk
Foundation of Arts (FdA)
Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon. The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages.
Substance
Substance may refer to:
Substance
Whatsoever can be perceived by the infinite intellect as constituting the essence of substance, belongs altogether only to one substance: consequently, substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance, comprehended now through one attribute, now through another. So, also, a mode of extension and the idea of that mode are one and the same thing, though expressed in two ways. This truth seems to have been dimly recognized by those Jews who maintained that God, God's intellect, and the things understood by God are identical. ...Thus, whether we conceive of nature under the attribute of thought, or under any other attribute, we shall find the same order, or one and the same chain of causes — that is, the same things follow in either case. ...Wherefore of things as they are of themselves, God is really the cause, inasmuch as he consists of infinite attributes.
Baruch Spinoza, in Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated (1677), Prop. 7: Note
Substance
The being of substance does not appertain to the essence of man — in other words, substance does not constitute the actual being of man.
Baruch Spinoza, in Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated (1677), Prop. 10
Substance
By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite — that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
Explanation — I say absolutely infinite, not infinite after its kind: for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite attributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite, contains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves no negation.
Baruch Spinoza, in Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated (1677), Definition 6
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