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Single Idea 16789
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Full Idea
A being cannot naturally go out of existence. For even if a ship or a plank ceases to be a ship or a plank, it never naturally ceases to be a being. For a being, unless it is annihilated, does not cease to be a being. To annihilate is a supernatural task.
Gist of Idea
Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being
Source
Thomas Hobbes (De Mundo (On the World) [1642], 12.5)
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.679
A Reaction
This idea was becoming an orthodoxy in Hobbes's time, and leads to the various conservation laws in physics.
The
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[the nature of pure being]:
448
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all
[Parmenides]
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449
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike
[Parmenides]
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447
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless
[Parmenides]
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12270
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Being is one
[Melissus, by Aristotle]
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20901
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True Being only occurs when it is completely full, with atoms and no void
[Democritus, by Aristotle]
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12348
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There are four kinds of being: incidental, per se, potential and actual, and being as truth
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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11194
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Being is either what falls in the categories, or what makes propositions true
[Aristotle, by Aquinas]
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11288
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Things are predicated of the basic thing, which isn't predicated of anything else
[Aristotle]
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15776
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There is only being in a certain way, and without that way there is no being
[Aristotle]
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611
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Being, taken simply as being, is the domain of philosophy
[Aristotle]
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22121
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The concept of being has only one meaning, whether talking of universals or of God
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22122
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Being (not sensation or God) is the primary object of the intellect
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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16789
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Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being
[Hobbes]
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6919
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Absolute thought remains in another world from being
[Feuerbach]
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19457
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Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable
[Feuerbach]
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22209
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Our goal is to reveal a new hidden region of Being
[Husserl]
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11010
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Being is what belongs to every possible object of thought
[Russell]
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21897
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Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view
[Heidegger, by May]
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15573
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For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being
[Heidegger]
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22333
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Only language is understandable Being
[Gadamer]
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21908
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21902
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference'
[Deleuze]
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14664
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Necessary beings (numbers, properties, sets, propositions, states of affairs, God) exist in all possible worlds
[Plantinga]
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12340
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There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets
[Badiou]
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9809
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Mathematics inscribes being as such
[Badiou]
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14401
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Every proposition is entirely about being
[Lewis]
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7707
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To grasp being, we must say why something exists, and why there is one world
[Jacquette]
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12254
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Being is substantial/accidental, complete/incomplete, necessary/contingent, possible, relative, intrinsic..
[Oderberg]
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