Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Bernard Williams, Empedocles and Geoffrey Gorham

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
458 Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease [Empedocles]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
5112 Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
22355 In the realist view, the real external world explains how it (and perceptions of it) are possible [Williams,B]