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'Parmenides', 'Reason, Truth and History' and 'Problems in the Explanation of Action'
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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 / 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 / 4. Anti-realism
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If we try to cure the abundance of theories with causal links, this is 'just more theory' [Putnam, by Lewis]
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The sentence 'A cat is on a mat' remains always true when 'cat' means cherry and 'mat' means tree [Putnam]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
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A fact is simply what it is rational to accept [Putnam]
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