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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Metaphysics of Causation' and 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'

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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 / b. Types of fact

10367	There is only one fact - the True [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: It can be argued that if all facts are logically equivalent, then there is only one fact - the True.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (The Metaphysics of Causation [2007], 1.1)
	A reaction: [he cites Davidson's 'Causal Relations', who cites Frege] This is the sort of bizarre stuff you end up with if you start from formal logic and work out to the world, instead of vice versa.