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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Fate ('De fato')' and 'Syntactic Structure'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic

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Chomsky established the view that category mistakes are well-formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

21677

How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]

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]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntax is independent of semantics; sentences can be well formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

21667

Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

21678

If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero]