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'Parmenides', 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences' and 'Speaking of Objects'
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
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We can only see an alien language in terms of our own thought structures (e.g. physical/abstract) [Quine]
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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 / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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"No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia]
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