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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' and 'Letter to Pythocles'

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8 ideas

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

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

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A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1828	God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]