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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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True Being only occurs when it is completely full, with atoms and no void [Democritus, by Aristotle]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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Being does not exist more than non-being [Democritus, by Aristotle]
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The non-existent exists as much as the existent, because it has causal powers [Democritus]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being
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The only distinctions are Configuration (shape), Disposition (order) and Turning (position) [Democritus, by Aristotle]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Nothing comes from non-existence, or passes into it [Democritus, by Diog. Laertius]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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If slowness is a property of walking rather than the walker, we must allow that events exist [Benardete,JA]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Early pre-Socratics had a mass-noun ontology, which was replaced by count-nouns [Benardete,JA]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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It is not possible to know what sort each thing is [Democritus]
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