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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'talk' and 'Self-Reliance'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

6558	A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [Emerson]

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]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

7006	Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]

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]