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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Categories' and 'Mental Models'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

229	The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]

11286

Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication [Politis on Aristotle]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

1700	There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

1699	A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence [Aristotle]

18366

Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence [Aristotle]

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

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

11035

There are ten basic categories for thinking about things [Aristotle]

3311	The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially [Benardete,JA on Aristotle]

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Substance,Quantity,Quality,Relation,Place,Time,Being-in-a-position,Having,Doing,Being affected [Aristotle, by Westerhoff]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

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Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc. [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]