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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Purple Haze' and 'works'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

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]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap

7876	Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]

7877	Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]

7878	Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]

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]