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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Limits of Reason' and 'A Plea for Excuses'

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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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button]

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 / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button]

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An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button]