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2017-10-01 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - plg hyp1 hyp5 - Only One Hypothesis?; Numbers and Ousia in the 5th

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg;hyp1;hyp5 Sections: 137b, 141e, 159b, 159e, 160b Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, JulieH, Eldar 0:00:30 Discussion with Pierre, Regina and Barbara: Are any of the 2-9 called hypotheses? 0:13:07 137b What does it mean, literally, 'I should begin from myself and my own hypothesis concerning the One-Self.'? Pierre advances the argument that there is really only 1 hypothesis, not 9. Possibility: We are going to find out whether the One is, or the One is not, by looking at the One-Self, which is his hypothesis. 2nd: What happens to the One if it participates in Ousia? It goes to einai. estin, einai. Accent issue. What is included with the word, 'existence'? Back to the original question: What is a hypothesis? 141e (DC shows how at the end of 141e, both forms of estin (accented and non-accented) are used.) PG: The condition for einai is participating Ousia. 'If one must trust in such a Logos.' 159e / P13 (0:51:02) Resuming 5th Hypothesis hyp5 Numbers and Ousia here versus the 2nd. Why would Parmenides add the idea of Selves in relationship to numbers in the 5th in order to extend what he said in the 2nd (for symmetry)? And why do it here, r

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