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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals' and 'The Sophist'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

15855	If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato]
	Full Idea: To dissociate each thing from everything else is to destroy totally everything there is to say. The weaving together of forms is what makes speech [logos] possible for us.
	From: Plato (The Sophist [c.359 BCE], 259e)
	A reaction: This I take to be the lynchpin of metaphysics. We are forced to see the world in a way which enables us to give some sort of account of it. Our metaphysics is 'inference to the best logos'.