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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De Veritate (On Truth)' and 'Letters to Johann Bernoulli'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

4748	Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel]

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

18933

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

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

13174

A piece of flint contains something resembling perceptions and appetites [Leibniz]

13175

Entelechies are analogous to souls, as other minds are analogous to our own minds [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

13172

What we cannot imagine may still exist [Leibniz]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

13173

Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz]