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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value' and 'Two letters on mind'

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10 ideas

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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

16635

Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

18225

If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard]

18228

An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

18224

Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

18233

Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard]

18226

For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

16684

Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]