Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Plato, Anaxarchus and Samuel Scheffler

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
229 The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
324 Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato]
20364 The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato]
9862 To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
11278 What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
1643 If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [Plato]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
21818 Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being [Plato]
21821 Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
7022 To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
2061 The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change [Plato]
2060 There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion [Plato]
2063 How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
15857 Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all [Plato]
14503 If a mixture does not contain measure and proportion, it is corrupted and destroyed [Plato]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
7953 Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
221 Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
6562 Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
1641 Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
10784 Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
13775 We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato]
16121 I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things [Plato]