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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
13884 The idea that 'exist' has multiple senses is not coherent [Wright,C]
     Full Idea: I have the gravest doubts whether any coherent account could be given of any multiplicity of senses of 'exist'.
     From: Crispin Wright (Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects [1983], 2.x)
     A reaction: I thoroughly agree with this thought. Do water and wind exist in different senses of 'exist'?
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
18933 Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]
     Full Idea: I. Nothing exists. a) Not-Being does not exist. b) Being does not exist as everlasting, as created, as both, as One, or as Many. II. If anything does exist, it is incomprehensible. III. If existence is comprehensible, it is incommunicable.
     From: report of Gorgias (fragments/reports [c.443 BCE], B03) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09
     A reaction: [Also Sextus Empiricus, Against Logicians I.65-] For Part I he works through all the possible modes of being he can think of, and explains why none of them are possible. It is worth remembering that Gorgias loved rhetoric, not philosophy!