Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Confessio naturae contra atheistas' and 'The Pragmatist Account of Truth'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

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Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths

22641

Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

12693

A body is that which exists in space [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

22640

We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James]

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]