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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Necessary Beings' and 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
	Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths

19278	There is no gap between a fact that p, and it is true that p; so we only have the truth-condtions for p [Hale]
	Full Idea: There is no clear gap between its being a fact that p and its being true that p, no obvious way to individuate the fact a true statement records other than via that statement's truth-conditions.
	From: Bob Hale (Necessary Beings [2013], 03.2)
	A reaction: Typical of philosophers of language. The concept of a fact is of something mind-independent; the concept of a truth is of something mind-dependent. They can't therefore be the same thing (by the contrapositive of the indiscernability of identicals!).