Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Beautiful in Music' and 'Symbolic Logic (with Langford)'

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5 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]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals
7803 Modal logic began with translation difficulties for 'If...then' [Lewis,CI, by Girle]
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]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
20344 Music is not an expressive art, because it expresses no familiar emotions [Hanslick, by Wollheim]