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'Parmenides', 'Causal Powers' and 'Content Preservation'
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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 / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Humeans can only explain change with continuity as successive replacement [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
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Humeans construct their objects from events, but we construct events from objects [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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The induction problem fades if you work with things, rather than with events [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / a. Fundamental reality
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Fundamental particulars can't change [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Hard individual blocks don't fix what 'things' are; fluids are no less material things [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / b. Mixtures
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Magnetic and gravity fields can occupy the same place without merging [Harré/Madden]
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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 / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Gravitational and electrical fields are, for a materialist, distressingly empty of material [Harré/Madden]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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Events are changes in states of affairs (which consist of structured particulars, with powers and relations) [Harré/Madden]
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