Method and Invention

Spinoza's Method has come to be commonly called Axiomatic or Deductive, and it seems likely that he conceives it as derived from the divine progression of Ideas, especially if he conceives his deity to be the ancient Logos.  But, if so, then there is a significant discrepancy in his likening the construction of more complex Ideas from simpler ones to that of more complex tools from simpler.  For, the latter sequence has often involved a transition that eludes reduction to a Method, especially an Axiomatic Method--invention, which Spinoza glosses when he renders the invention of tools as the "making of tools".  Putting the pattern of divine Thought to human use might be likened to stealing fire from the gods, but the wheel has no pre-human precedent, which is why it is commonly recognized as the prototypical 'invention'.  On the other hand, human invention is an instance of divine action insofar as the deity being instantiated is a creative deity.  And, if human Reason is a Mode of divine methodical Thought, then perhaps human Intuition is the awareness that invention is a Mode of immanent divine creativity.  Spinoza does not address these possibilities, but without them, his tool-Idea analogy involves a significant discrepancy.