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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Process Philosophy' and 'Grounding Concepts'

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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 / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories [Seibt]

19479

Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners [Seibt]

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Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this [Seibt]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation

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We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts [Jenkins]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

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There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence [Jenkins, by PG]

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 / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

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The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well [Jenkins]