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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Tonk, Plonk and Plink' and 'The Thought: a Logical Enquiry'

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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

19471	A fact is a thought that is true [Frege]
	Full Idea: A fact is a thought that is true.
	From: Gottlob Frege (The Thought: a Logical Enquiry [1918], p.342(74))
	A reaction: It strikes me as pretty obvious that facts are not thoughts, because they concern the contents of thoughts. You can't discuss facts without the notion of what a thought is 'about'. If I think about my garden, the relevant fact is aspects of my garden.