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Single Idea 24297

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence]

Full Idea

Is to be simply partaking of being with time present?

Gist of Idea

Is existence just being combined with time?

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.366 BCE], 151e)

A Reaction

This would only make sense is there were a timeless mode of being, which presumably what Plato attributes to Forms and mathematics. Does that therefore imply that timeless beings 'are not'?

Book Reference

Plato: 'Parmenides', ed/tr. Gill,M.L./Ryan,P. [Hackett 1996], p.158