Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Of the First Principles of Government' and 'The Structure and Content of Truth'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

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Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson]

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]

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]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21094

There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property [Hume]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

21095

It is an exaggeration to say that property is the foundation of all government [Hume]