From ejt1@columbia.edu Thu Aug 8 07:06:54 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g78E6reY059624 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:06:53 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Aug 08 07:06:52 2002 -0700 Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.11]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g78E6qR8011460 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:06:52 -0700 Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g78E6pKT027262 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g78E6p4o027259 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:06:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ciao.cc.columbia.edu: ejt1 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:06:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Elias J Theodoracopoulos Sender: ejt1@columbia.edu To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Philosophy (WAS: Help, please) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, David Unlupher wrote: > By the way, I was simply wrong when I said earlier today that > Gorgias' essay "On Non-Being" exists (whatever "exists" means). > We have it only in paraphrases by in Pseudo-Aristotle ("On > Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias") and Sextus Empiricus. > Somehow, it's rather comforting to know that this treatise > does not in fact ("*fact*"?) "exist". Wrong, about the nature of "existence"? A paraphrase is a form of existence, different from a verbatim text, of course, but yet sharing the quality that both are reflections (reproductions, if you will) of the original. In this instance "fact" and "existence" have overlapping semantic ranges. EJTh .