Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophical Letters' and 'The Parts of Animals'

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5 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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

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The brain has no responsibility for sensations, which occur in the heart [Aristotle]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

23221

The brain, and all the mental events within it, consists entirely of sensitive and rational matter [Cavendish]

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]