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[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Full Idea
For Plato, the intelligible world - the world of eternal and unchanging forms - is Parmenidean; the world of appearances - the world of flux we inhabit - is Heraclitean.
Clarification
Parmenides and Heraclitus were two earlier philosophers
Gist of Idea
Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux
Source
report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE]) by Robert Fogelin - Walking the Tightrope of Reason Ch.1
Book Ref
Fogelin,Robert: 'Walking the Tightrope of Reason' [OUP 2004], p.25
A Reaction
Parmenides said reality is 'One'; Heraclitus said reality is 'flux'. This is a nice summary of Plato's view, and encapsulates two key influences on Plato, though the mathematical reality of Pythagoras should also be mentioned on the 'forms' side.
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25 ideas
with the same theme
[sort of reality to which realists are committed]:
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us
[Plato]
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6562
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux
[Plato, by Fogelin]
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12095
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Knowledge of potential is universal and indefinite; of the actual it is definite and of individuals
[Aristotle]
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6262
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We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features
[Montaigne]
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12752
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Only unities have any reality
[Leibniz]
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21926
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Schopenhauer, unlike other idealists, says reality is irrational
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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10352
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The real is the idea in which the community ultimately settles down
[Peirce]
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22202
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The World is all experiencable objects
[Husserl]
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5370
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Space is neutral between touch and sight, so it cannot really be either of them
[Russell]
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22161
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Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically
[Heidegger]
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13934
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To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself
[Carnap]
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17659
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Reality is largely a matter of habit
[Goodman]
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8507
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Some think of reality as made of things; I prefer facts or states of affairs
[Armstrong]
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12598
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Reality is the overlap of true complete theories
[Harman]
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2329
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Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal
[Kim]
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7974
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Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?
[Baudrillard]
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6082
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If causal power is the test for reality, that will exclude necessities and possibilities
[McGinn]
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1605
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Reality can be viewed neutrally, or as an object of desire
[Roochnik]
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9211
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A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence
[Fine,K]
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15072
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Bottom level facts are subject to time and world, middle to world but not time, and top to neither
[Fine,K]
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15046
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Reality is a primitive metaphysical concept, which cannot be understood in other terms
[Fine,K]
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15047
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What is real can only be settled in terms of 'ground'
[Fine,K]
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15048
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In metaphysics, reality is regarded as either 'factual', or as 'fundamental'
[Fine,K]
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15060
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Why should what is explanatorily basic be therefore more real?
[Fine,K]
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21660
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Reality can be seen as the totality of facts, or as the totality of things
[Hofweber]
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