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2017-10-26 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - hyp9,hyp1 - Nothing Without Self; Everything With

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp9;hyp1 Sections: 165e-166c;142a Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Eldar Highlights: [Another “pocket” recording day. Sorry for the shuffling. (We eventually went back to table-top recorder placement.) Thanks for your patience. -JS] Starting with P4 in the 9th. (165e) The force of the word, “in”: present in . 166a P6 Appearance: Communion: Is that a one-ness? A kind of participation? Barbara: Are they saying that In order for something to appear to be one or many, it has to have the one present in it, or it has to have communion with real beings. Pierre: Yes. Same reasoning as in the 1st hyp: If you're going to knock out any property of the One, you have to knock out Being. Notice “no part exists with non-Beings” David notices the language in P6 has a lot of ouden-'s (Working on translation of P6 for a while) Barbara: “.. holds no common-ness in any way in any place to any thing ..” P7 Why does it follow that the same logic can follow with opinion? Why can there not be any opinion about others (given what was said in P6 about Real Beings)? (This will lead to the Self, i.e., the denial/absence of it) i.e., What is so vital that without it

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