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2016-11-18 NSPRM Parmenides plg 131d, 132de - Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 131d, 132de Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, Regina, Bradley, Eldar, JeffS Pierre's new paper (unpublished yet) on midwifery in the 10 ox-herding pictures(1), and small paragraphs he wrote for each of the 10. Pierre inviting Bradley (since Bradley paints) to make 10 new ox-herding pictures(1) to illustrate the stages that participants in Philosophical Midwifery(2) go through; also, Pierre inviting others of us to write new captions for going underneath Bradley's images. Regina and Pierre dialogue (from 0:39:45 to 1:30:56) about seeing the flaws in Socrates' argument which will later assist in seeing Parmenides' logos. Diagram used only at the very end, as we are leaving: - 1: the 10 oxherding pictures, each picture and text describing the current state but in some way anticipating the next state - 2: next, we can be looking into the reasoning Parmenides should use to transition between each of the hypotheses. (1) á là Roshi Philip Kapleau's 10-image illustrated appendix in " The Three Pillars of Zen " (2) a type of dialogue Pierre invented, based on Socratic midwifery (as mentioned in the Theaetetus and elsewhere). His book describing it:

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