Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Avicenna (Abu Ibn Sina) and Nicholas Rescher

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

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In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher]