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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Of the First Principles of Government' and 'New Essays on Human Understanding'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982	I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]
	Full Idea: "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. - "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked. ..."To be able to see Nobody! ...Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people."
	From: Lewis Carroll (C.Dodgson) (Through the Looking Glass [1886], p.189), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.7
	A reaction: [Moore quotes this, inevitably, in a chapter on Hegel] This may be a better candidate for the birth of philosophy of language than Frege's Groundwork.

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

12932	The idea of being must come from our own existence [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: I would like to know how we could have the idea of being if we did not, as beings ourselves, find being within us.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.01)
	A reaction: I could envisage a creature with an entirely 'externa' mind, that just focused on environment, and took its own place in it unthinkingly for granted. I suppose he's right, though.