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34 ideas
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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Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view [Heidegger, by May]
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For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being [Heidegger]
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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 / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
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Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities [Heidegger]
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In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve [Heidegger]
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'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being [Heidegger]
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The word 'dasein' is used to mean 'the manner of Being which man possesses', and also the human creature [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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'Dasein' is Being which is laid claim to, and which matters to its owner [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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Dasein is being which can understand itself, and possess itself in a way allowing authenticity [Heidegger]
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Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world [Heidegger, by Gray]
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Dasein is a mode of Being distinguished by concern for its own Being [Heidegger]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Ontology is possible only as phenomenology [Heidegger]
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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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Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass [Simons]
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There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes' [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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I don't believe in processes [Simons]
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Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers' [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 3. Moments
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Moments are things like smiles or skids, which are founded on other things [Simons]
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A smiling is an event with causes, but the smile is a continuant without causes [Simons]
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Moving disturbances are are moments which continuously change their basis [Simons]
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A wave is maintained by a process, but it isn't a process [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
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I do not think there is a general identity condition for events [Simons]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Relativity has an ontology of things and events, not on space-time diagrams [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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Independent objects can exist apart, and maybe even entirely alone [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Mass nouns admit 'much' and 'a little', and resist 'many' and 'few'. [Simons]
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Gold is not its atoms, because the atoms must be all gold, but gold contains neutrons [Simons]
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Mass terms (unlike plurals) are used with indifference to whether they can exist in units [Simons]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
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A mixture can have different qualities from its ingredients. [Simons]
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Mixtures disappear if nearly all of the mixture is one ingredient [Simons]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically [Heidegger]
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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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