Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Carl Ginet, Gottfried Leibniz and Plato
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato]
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato]
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The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
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If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being [Plato]
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being
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What is not truly one being is not truly a being either [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
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The idea of being must come from our own existence [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]
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God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]
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Leibniz first asked 'why is there something rather than nothing?' [Leibniz, by Jacquette]
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There must be a straining towards existence in the essence of all possible things [Leibniz]
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Because something does exist, there must be a drive in possible things towards existence [Leibniz]
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First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato]
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What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change [Plato]
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How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato]
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There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion [Plato]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
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Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves [Leibniz]
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Leibniz proposes monads, since there must be basic things, which are immaterial in order to have unity [Leibniz, by Jolley]
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Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz]
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A piece of flint contains something resembling perceptions and appetites [Leibniz]
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Entelechies are analogous to souls, as other minds are analogous to our own minds [Leibniz]
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Monads are not extended, but have a kind of situation in extension [Leibniz]
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Only monads are substances, and bodies are collections of them [Leibniz]
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All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz]
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A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz]
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Without a substantial chain to link monads, they would just be coordinated dreams [Leibniz]
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Monads do not make a unity unless a substantial chain is added to them [Leibniz]
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Monads control nothing outside of themselves [Leibniz]
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The monad idea incomprehensibly spiritualises matter, instead of materialising soul [La Mettrie on Leibniz]
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He replaced Aristotelian continuants with monads [Leibniz, by Wiggins]
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Is a drop of urine really an infinity of thinking monads? [Voltaire on Leibniz]
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It is unclear in 'Monadology' how extended bodies relate to mind-like monads. [Garber on Leibniz]
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Changes in a monad come from an internal principle, and the diversity within its substance [Leibniz]
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A 'monad' has basic perception and appetite; a 'soul' has distinct perception and memory [Leibniz]
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All simply substances are in harmony, because they all represent the one universe [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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Objects of ideas can be divided into abstract and concrete, and then further subdivided [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
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If a mixture does not contain measure and proportion, it is corrupted and destroyed [Plato]
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Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato]
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If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz]
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The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz]
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The division of nature into matter makes distinct appearances, and that presupposes substances [Leibniz]
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The only indications of reality are agreement among phenomena, and their agreement with necessities [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin]
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Only unities have any reality [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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In actual things nothing is indefinite [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato]
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I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things [Plato]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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Have five categories - substance, quantity, quality, action/passion, relation - and their combinations [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
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Our true divisions of nature match reality, but are probably incomplete [Leibniz]
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