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'Cratylus', 'fragments/reports' and 'Dispositions'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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20901
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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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20902
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Being does not exist more than non-being [Democritus, by Aristotle]
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20904
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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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20903
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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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20893
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Nothing comes from non-existence, or passes into it [Democritus, by Diog. Laertius]
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2063
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How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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14334
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Modest realism says there is a reality; the presumptuous view says we can accurately describe it [Mumford]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realists deny truth-values to all statements, and say evidence and ontology are inseparable [Mumford]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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20896
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It is not possible to know what sort each thing is [Democritus]
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