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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Problem of Empty Names' and 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''

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5 ideas

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

23505

Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

18946

Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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

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