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By virtue of his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, Spinoza is considered one of Western philosophy's definitive ethicists.

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text (disambiguation)

Text may refer to:

• the representation of written language
• Text (literary theory), a concept in literary theory
• "Text" (song), a 2010 song by Mann
• TEXT, a Swedish band formed by 3/4 ex-Refused Members
• TEXT, the independent record label of electronica artist Four Tet
• Textbook, a standardized instructional book
• Text display, an electronic alphanumeric display device
• Text file, a computer file consisting solely of printable characters from a recognized character set
• Text messaging, the sending of short messages by mobile phone
• Text segment, another name for the code segment of a binary executable computer file
• A particular Bible passage, sometimes a single verse or verse fragment
• Another name for a literary work
• TxT (film), a 2006 Filipino horror film.

Text may refer to

In books:

• a book
• a textbook

In unit of study:

• hermeneutics
• philology
• Semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems
• cultural studies, the unit of discourse

In writing:

• a piece of writing
• Textual criticism

See

• Roland Barthes's From Work To Text.
• Intertextuality
• Literature