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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Preface to Great Instauration (Renewal)'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

6602	Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon]

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]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

6603	Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon]

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]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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The state should kill blasphemous heretics [Erasmus]