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'Parmenides', 'Consilience' and 'Ontological Dependence'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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An object's 'being' isn't existence; there's more to an object than existence, and its nature doesn't include existence [Fine,K]
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
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There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions [Fine,K]
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A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does [Fine,K]
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An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition [Fine,K]
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Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another [Fine,K]
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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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