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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Statesman' and 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction''

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
Chrysippus said the uncaused is non-existent [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition
To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato]
No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato]
Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]