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'Parmenides', 'Neutral Relations' and 'Lectura'
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]
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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]
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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]
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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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223
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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210
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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217
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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