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Ideas for 'Parmenides', '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?' and 'The Trouble with Being Born'

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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 / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran]

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 / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran]