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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '23: Book of Isaiah' and 'Possible Worlds'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7493	Let us reason together, saith the Lord [Isaiah]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

15789

Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]

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]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

15790

Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]

15791

What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]

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]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

7608	The world is established, and cannot be moved [Isaiah]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God

7343	Beside me there is no God [Isaiah]