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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Mind and the Soul' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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9 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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

9295	Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

9293	Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann]

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 / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

9292	The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann]

9294	No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann]