 Okay, so We asked Plato What is being? Let's give it a shot, right? Maybe you've tried a couple of different things right you say well being means to exist Okay, well existing just means being right. That's just a synonym And synonyms don't give you meaning right that all synonym means is here's another word that means the same thing So if we define being and turn we say well to be means to exist That's a synonym that doesn't tell us what it means to exist May we say to be means what is? Same problem. That's just a synonym that doesn't tell us what it means to exist. That's just another word for exists and This works for I mean this is true for all the being verbs right is our was where be being been You know, you have being in different tenses, but they all still rely upon You know some fundamental sense of being all right Well, let's try and point to an example right so that thing that thing right there that exists that that exists Okay, that's a start If I'm gonna point to that thing and say Yeah, you know, that's what it is to exist Well, I should have a contrasting case too, right now to define means to be able to say this is what all and only things That that exists, right? If I were to just point up there and say Brog Okay, what does that mean now point down here's a gerb If I just point and use a word Am I talking about the color? Am I talking about the plant? Am I talking about downward angle? Am I talking about left hand in this pose? There's a huge indeterminacy With just simply pointing at something So when if you're gonna define by pointing out examples you need more than one thing to kind of point here This is this kind of the basics of when we're trying to learn another language You have to point to a bunch of different things and say well, these are different from each other and these are their names Okay Well, I could spend all day being big big big big big big big big big big That doesn't tell me what that is I Can spend all day going? God God God God God God God God God God God God God you don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe I'm talking about living things Right So just simply pointing to existing things isn't gonna do it You know mind the fact that Well, let's leave that aside Well, let's try Plato's approach right and Plato's sitting here saying you have to use all and only things that exist Okay, that's how I define being But it's not like I could point to things that don't exist Right, there's no non-existing things. I can't point to them I mean, I could try to say something like what? All these things exist but unicorns don't Okay, well your permittees is looking in the background saying um, excuse me You can't talk about unicorns if you say they don't exist It's like well, where's the unicorn? It's not here because that's a nothing Uh, maybe talk about the idea of a unicorn. Well, that's an idea and that's an existing thing Hmm, we got a kind of a big problem there, right? Trying to define being in terms of all and only things I don't know. Maybe you just kind of give up and say, I don't know. I just use the word I don't know what it means. Okay Well, since there's no sense to the word is very literally nonsense if you take that approach And if we say that it's nonsense, what are we saying? We're saying the you know a basic concept that's fundamental to every language that has or could exist Is nonsense. I mean you can't get a language off the ground without having existence in some way shape or form So How do we define being? By the way in the background, Annex and Anders is sitting there saying look I told you so I told you that you can't define being In terms of just finite things right uh Because you're gonna have this problem. You're either you're gonna point to synonyms, which you know, we've seen that problem Uh, you can't point to particulars because all these particular things exist Uh, so hey You know good luck No, maybe you know, maybe play it or just gonna show yourself. Well, you know Being is everything. It's all nests. It's unlimited And Annex was like, yeah, I told you it was unlimited a long time ago Sure, it's unlimited. It's the boundless And you know the way playdial speaks about being is yeah, it is this kind of reality unlimited That's boundless at that point. That's boundless at that point Hmm So even trying to take Plato at his word and understanding reality I don't know looks like we can't get to the sun always gonna be stuck in that cave