Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics' and 'On 'Physics''

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

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]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16695

Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

16726

Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan]

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]