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1. Existence is an attribute that can belong to objects

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2. The most fundamental being is a tiny physical particle.

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3. There is one principle Being, "with a capital B".

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4. I can step in the same river twice.

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5. There is some sense in which that which does not exist exists

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6. To be is to be the value of a bound variable

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7. To be is to be perceived

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8. Bodies are not minds, and minds are not bodies, and never the twain shall meet.

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9. The rational is the real, and the real is the rational.

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10. Existence precedes essence

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11. We can make sense of existing outside of space and time?

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12. Everything that we say exists must derive from experience.

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13. We can never know the reality of things, merely the phenomena

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14. The individual is a windowless view on the entire world from its own point of view

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15. There are no minds, merely bodies

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16. There are no minds or bodies

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17. The most practical knowledge is knowledge of The Good, or Being itself

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18. Anything that goes by the name "redness" is either just a name we apply to red things, or needs real red things in order to exist.

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19. Time and space are categories of our thought.

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20. Ideas are objects of thought, as opposed to ways of thinking about objects.

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21. This is the best of all possible universes.

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22. Animals, and even plants, and maybe even non-living things have souls (at least potentially)

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23. Numbers exist

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24. Round squares exist, at least in some universes.

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