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'Parmenides', 'The Limits of Abstraction' and 'Principles of Nature and Grace based on Reason'
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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 / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Abstracts cannot be identified with sets [Fine,K]
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Points in Euclidean space are abstract objects, but not introduced by abstraction [Fine,K]
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Postulationism says avoid abstract objects by giving procedures that produce truth [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
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A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz]
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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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