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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Conditionals' and 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics''

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5 ideas

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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance

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By comparing qualities and features, reason can gradually infer the nature of substance [Grosseteste]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent [Jackson, by Edgington]

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]