[Cosmology]

PART <PARS> II

§354. It is not necessary that the finitude of the world, which is yet to be proven, is brought into the definition.

The world is a real whole <totum reale>: all things in it stand in real connection <in nexu reali>.

The world is a whole which is not part of another <totum quod non est pars alterius>: otherwise this would be only a piece of the world.

The world is therefore a (real) whole of actual things, which is not part of another <mundus ergo est totum (reale) actualium, quod non est pars alteriu<.

357. All things are in real connection <in realnexu>: they are connected in certain determinations, be they as they may.

358. (In this world) the world is present, of which I am a part. There is a reciprocal connection, either mediately or immediately <(in hoc mundo) mundus praesens est, cujus sum pars ego. Est nexus mutuus vel mediate vel immediate>.

361. (Cf. §354, as a proposition to be proven, should not be brought into the definition) As parts, all parts of the whole are in real connection <in realnexu> with one another as component parts <compartibus>: because they are grounds of the whole, and the whole cannot subsist without them. A part thus depends on some determinations of the others: consequently no part in the whole is independent – the whole [is] not independent – [but] contingent.