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Single Idea 24298

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming]

Full Idea

If nothing that comes to be can sidestep the now, whenever a thing 'is' at this point, it always stops its coming-to-be and then is whatever it may have come to be.

Gist of Idea

What is becoming can't avoid the now, and then its ceases to become, and is itself

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.366 BCE], 152c)

A Reaction

Just common sense, but interesting that Plato works so hard to precisely identify the stages of becoming and being.

Book Reference

Plato: 'Parmenides', ed/tr. Gill,M.L./Ryan,P. [Hackett 1996], p.159