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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility' and 'Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

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Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]

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

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

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis]

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]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

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The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart]