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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Commentary on the Metaphysics' and 'Of Grammatology'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy

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Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique

6028	Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity

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Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings [Derrida]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

5993	The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]