Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Flow of Time' and 'Sociobiology'

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7 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]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

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Presentists lack the materials for a realist view of change [Price,H]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

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The present moment, time's direction, and time's dynamic quality seem to be objective facts [Price,H]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

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We must explain either the existence of a time direction, or our psychological sense of it [Price,H]