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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Warrant and Proper Function' and 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism'

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8 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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

6356	Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]

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]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]

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The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]

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We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]

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We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]