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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Paul Pellison-Fontinier' and 'Two letters on mind'

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7 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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

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]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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Clearly, force is that from which action follows, when unimpeded [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

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Time doesn't exist, since its parts don't coexist [Leibniz]