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2017-10-02 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - hyp9 hyp8 - In Relation to the Minute Fragments of Self

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp8;hyp9 Sections: 164b-166c Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, JulieH, Eldar 165e-166c (9th hyp, P1-P13) 164b-165e (8th hyp, P1-P24) Brief outline from Barbara: Hi, Jeff No diagrams, a piece of writing Pierre handed me to read when I arrived, pretty much the first thing on the audio--he again got there early and started with Gina, early. I don't have it; he gave it to Gina. We did Hypothesis 9 Then, having dusted that one off, we went through the 9th for some unknown reason, perhaps its brevity allowed for that. We'll be returning to the 9th Pierre says. Regards, Barbara My notes: 0:30 Barbara reads something Pierre wrote to give to Regina: "While there are many things that you can call "one", that does not mean that there is a "one" that is the source of all the ones that I encounter. Because both the single ones and its commonness as one are only means, and so do not have an existence. So don't say the one exists, because that gives it a status it does not deserve." The position many take: Nominalism. Any use of the word "one" is only a name. They are only names. They have no existence in themselves. Just a way of talking. Existence its

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