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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aenesidemus' and 'On 'The Beginning of Philosophy''

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach]

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 / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

22014

Consciousness is not entirely representational, because there are pains, and the self [Schulze, by Pinkard]

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]