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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophical Remarks' and 'The Realm of Matter'

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7 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]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18521

The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

22320

An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental

18283

Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

18282

You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein]

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]