Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Zeno (Citium) 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 / 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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Whatever participates in substance exists [Zeno of Citium, by Stobaeus]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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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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The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change [Plato]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
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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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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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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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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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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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