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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reals by Abstraction' and 'Categories, Classification, Cogn. Anthropology'

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5 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

10632

The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

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 / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

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Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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

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