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'Parmenides', 'Thought and Reality' and 'Truth and the Past'
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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 / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Philosophers should not presume reality, but only invoke it when language requires it [Dummett]
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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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We can't make sense of a world not apprehended by a mind [Dummett]
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I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
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Since 'no bird here' and 'no squirrel here' seem the same, we must talk of 'atomic' facts [Dummett]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths
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We know we can state facts, with true statements [Dummett]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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'That is red or orange' might be considered true, even though 'that is red' and 'that is orange' were not [Dummett]
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