Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth' and 'A Plea for Excuses'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
21960 Ordinary language is the beginning of philosophy, but there is much more to it [Austin,JL]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
10835 True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion [Austin,JL]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
10836 Correspondence theorists shouldn't think that a country has just one accurate map [Austin,JL]
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]
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]