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'Parmenides', 'Epistemology Externalized' and 'Ontological Categories'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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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]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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How far down before we are too specialised to have a category? [Westerhoff]
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13116
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Maybe objects in the same category have the same criteria of identity [Westerhoff]
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Categories are base-sets which are used to construct states of affairs [Westerhoff]
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Categories are held to explain why some substitutions give falsehood, and others meaninglessness [Westerhoff]
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Categories systematize our intuitions about generality, substitutability, and identity [Westerhoff]
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Categories as generalities don't give a criterion for a low-level cut-off point [Westerhoff]
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Categories can be ordered by both containment and generality [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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The aim is that everything should belong in some ontological category or other [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events [Westerhoff]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
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Ontological categories are like formal axioms, not unique and with necessary membership [Westerhoff]
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Categories merely systematise, and are not intrinsic to objects [Westerhoff]
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A thing's ontological category depends on what else exists, so it is contingent [Westerhoff]
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