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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike [Parmenides]
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all [Parmenides]
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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The realm of necessary non-existence cannot be explored, because it is unknowable [Parmenides]
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There is no such thing as nothing [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm [Parmenides, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth [Parmenides]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Logical atomism builds on the simple properties, but are they the only possible properties? [Armstrong]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism
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'Naturalism' says only the world of space-time exists [Armstrong]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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Truthmaking needs states of affairs, to unite particulars with tropes or universals. [Armstrong]
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