Abstract
A suspect Spinozism : concerning Boulainvillier's god. Boulainvilliers, who claims that he is explaining Spinoza's system, defines God as a substance with an infinity of attributes. However, an attribute is here not the essence or nature of substance, but simply our way of knowing it. Substantial essence and thought discussed by Boulainvilliers are abstractions ; infinite substance is being and being is the determined being of modes. That is why he says that God is the universality of things. But a divisible whole, composed of parts, cannot be infinite. As he believes this contradiction to be insoluble, despite the solution implicit in his works, Boulainvilliers proclaims that the divinity is unknowable and thus he deforms Spinoza's doctrine.
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