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'Parmenides', 'Vagueness: a global approach' and 'De Mundo (On the World)'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being [Hobbes]
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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 / 10. Vagueness / a. Problem of vagueness
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Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K]
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Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K]
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Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
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Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K]
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