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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to a Young Clergyman' and 'Reply to Sixth Objections'

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7 ideas

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

22520

You can't reason someone out of an irrational opinion [Swift]

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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

3644	Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

3621	Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes]

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]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

3637	Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes]