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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Calculus Ratiocinator' and 'What do powers do when they are not manifested?'

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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]

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

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Powers are claimed to be basic because fundamental particles lack internal structure [Psillos]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

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A whole is just its parts, but there are no smallest parts, so only minds and perceptions exist [Leibniz]

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]