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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Dialogue on Things and Words' and 'The Analyst'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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Truth is a characteristic of possible thoughts [Leibniz]

19388

True and false seem to pertain to thoughts, yet unthought propositions seem to be true or false [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals

18091

Infinitesimals are ghosts of departed quantities [Berkeley]

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]