Spinoza defines God as a "substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence" Spinoza, Ethics 1, 11.
But it's unclear if he means to say that "there are infinitely many attributes, or only that each attribute is in some sense infinite in its own nature?" Roger Scruton, Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 50.
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