Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth-maker Realism' and 'The Myth of the Given'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

18469

God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

8790	The 'doctrine of the given' is correct; some beliefs or statements are self-justifying [Chisholm]

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]