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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology' and 'A Serious Proposal to the Ladies I'

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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]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19393

What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]

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]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / a. Natural freedom

20581

If men are born free, are women born slaves? [Astell]