Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Popular Scientific Lectures' and 'The Artworld'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

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]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

20328

A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history [Danto]