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To: richardred who wrote (13)	11/29/2004 11:35:20 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26251

<The mind needs influence to reason.> Without doubt.... Philosophy is a path along which we are traveling. What is this "influence"? The sense experience of David Hume (as your "outside exposure") or the Being of the Greeks? Perhaps a bit of both? The "whatness" or inner essence of all things, Plato called "Idea". Aristotle called it "energeia". Heraclitus called it "Fire". Anaxamander called it "Air". Parmenides called it "the One". Democritus called it "Atom". Thales called it "Water". For Descarte, that which is true is measured in another way. For him doubt becomes that tuning in which the attunement vibrates to the being in certainty. Mind without sense experience is Abstraction. Sense experience without Mind is Chaos.

To: richardred who wrote (13)	12/1/2004 5:21:02 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26251

Change? Nothing ever changes... the only place you'll ever find change is in a vending machine... GZ

To: richardred who wrote (13)	12/1/2004 8:57:48 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26251

"And indeed the question which was raised of old and is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, is what is being. For it is this that some assert to be one, others more than one, and that some assert to be limited in number, others unlimited. And so we also must consider chiefly and primarily and almost exclusively what that is which is in this sense." Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1028b Being-ness appears in many guises. Existence is revealed in many ways.