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'Parmenides', 'Varieties of Meaning' and 'works'
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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 / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible [Quine, by Hossack]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
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Quine says we can expand predicates easily (ideology), but not names (ontology) [Quine, by Noonan]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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For Quine everything exists theoretically, as reference, predication and quantification [Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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