 Spinoza characterizes scientia intuitiva as the kind of cognition that “proceeds from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the [NS: formal] essence of things” (E2p40s2). Given Spinoza’s claim that only infinite things can follow from infinite things (E1p21–23), it seems that the “formal essences” of particular things that intuition infers from the essences of divine attributes must themselves be infinite (D. Garrett 2018:ch.7).