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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Histories' and 'Contextualism Defended'

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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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

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Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context [Cohen,S]

12896

Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is [Cohen,S]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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There aren't invariant high standards for knowledge, because even those can be raised [Cohen,S]

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]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

1513	The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]