Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophy without Intuitions' and 'Statements about Universals'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

7 ideas

2. Reason / E. Argument / 7. Thought Experiments

20183

So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen]

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]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals

8499	Nominalists cannot translate 'red resembles pink more than blue' into particulars [Jackson]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

8500	Colour resemblance isn't just resemblance between things; 'colour' must be mentioned [Jackson]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition

20182

The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen]

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]