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| Oct 13, 2019 at 11:16 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | Hi Ted, welcome to Phil.SE! Currently your question is not well-defined, and thus cannot be answered properly. I'd advise you to define "being", and explain why that definition does not sit well with the concept of "idea". That would help get better answers. As of now, I voted your question to be close as unclear what you're asking. I believe that if you edit the question accordingly it will stay open and receive good answers. | |
| Oct 11, 2019 at 0:31 | comment | added | Conifold | If he defines "being" as anything that is, then so it is defined. The existential status of ideas has been debated since Plato. Medieval scholasts named it the [problem of universals](). According to realists ideas are "beings", and according to nominalists they are just fictions, nomina | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 23:46 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 10, 2019 at 23:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 10, 2019 at 19:45 | comment | added | Ted DeRose | I think he was studying St Thomas Aquinas, so it would involve Aristotle. Being would be anything that exists, but I am a little uncertain whether this existence is material and how a dream can be a being. I guess I am not very good yet at taking a word I have used in a daily life way and rethinking it in a philosophical sense. Had the same trouble with motion. | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 18:13 | answer | added | salah | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/1182355236108886016 | ||
| Oct 10, 2019 at 17:31 | answer | added | Rushi | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 16:42 | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 16:08 | answer | added | J D | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 15:51 | comment | added | E... | What does he mean by 'a being'? If he just means 'anything that exists' then it's not really saying anything. If something else, what exactly? | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 15:39 | history | edited | J D |
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| Oct 10, 2019 at 15:35 | history | asked | Ted DeRose | CC BY-SA 4.0 |