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'Parmenides', 'The Question of Ontology' and 'The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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'Exists' is a predicate, not a quantifier; 'electrons exist' is like 'electrons spin' [Fine,K]
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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 / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Just as we introduced complex numbers, so we introduced sums and temporal parts [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Real objects are those which figure in the facts that constitute reality [Fine,K]
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Being real and being fundamental are separate; Thales's water might be real and divisible [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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For ontology we need, not internal or external views, but a view from outside reality [Fine,K]
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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 / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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Ontological claims are often universal, and not a matter of existential quantification [Fine,K]
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