Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Relations' and 'Substances without Substrata'

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7 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]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

21354

It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

21353

Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation

21352

'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6316	We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL]