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'Parmenides', 'Our Knowledge of the External World' and 'The Powers Metaphysics'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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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]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Change exists, it is causal, and it needs an explanation [Williams,NE]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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Processes don't begin or end; they just change direction unexpectedly [Williams,NE]
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Processes are either strings of short unchanging states, or continuous and unreducible events [Williams,NE]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts [Russell]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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The status quo is part of what exists, and so needs metaphysical explanation [Williams,NE]
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A metaphysic is a set of wider explanations derived from a basic ontology [Williams,NE]
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Humeans say properties are passive, possibility is vast, laws are descriptions, causation is weak [Williams,NE]
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We shouldn't posit the existence of anything we have a word for [Williams,NE]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts
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A positive and negative fact have the same constituents; their difference is primitive [Russell]
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