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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causation and the Manifestation of Powers' and 'fragments/reports'

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7 ideas

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]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation

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Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird]

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]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

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The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

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The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird]