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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causes and Events: Mackie on causation' and 'Languages of Art (2nd edn)'

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8 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]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

4779	For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos]

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]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

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Art is a referential activity, hence indefinable, but it has a set of symptoms [Goodman]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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Artistic symbols are judged by the fruitfulness of their classifications [Goodman, by Giovannelli]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 7. Ontology of Art

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A performance is only an instance of a work if there is not a single error [Goodman]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 2. Copies of Art

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A copy only becomes an 'instance' of an artwork if there is a system of notation [Goodman]