
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
The Problem of Non Being Is a Problem
The problem of non being could be thought of as either a state of affairs which is inherently negative, so the state of affairs in which it's not raigning a somehow being real. If i say it is raining, im that i've expressed a state of Affairs in my false statement, that it's raining that fails to obtain. So you might think that the problem of non in is a problem because it involves the notion of thee states of affairs that are negative somehow, that don't obtain. And really, all there is out in the world is the states of affair that do obtain. There's no way things aren't out there on the world s. The world is just everything
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