Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Thomas Aquinas and A.J. Ayer

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

11195

If affirmative propositions express being, we affirm about what is absent [Aquinas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

22103

Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being

15812

Being implies distinctness, which implies division, unity, and multitude [Aquinas]

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 / 1. Ontologies

6523	Positivists regard ontology as either meaningless or stipulated [Ayer, by Robinson,H]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism

21268

Non-human things are explicable naturally, and voluntary things by the will, so God is not needed [Aquinas]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

2611	It is currently held that quantifying over something implies belief in its existence [Ayer]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

16655

Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas]