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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Letter to Herodotus' and 'Machine Man'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

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Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus]

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If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

229	The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]

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]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

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The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus]