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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason' and 'Categories, Classification, Cogn. Anthropology'

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8 ideas

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]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

10494

Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]

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]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20033

Intentions are normative, requiring commitment and further plans [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20034

Intentions must be mutually consistent, affirm appropriate means, and fit the agent's beliefs [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

20026

Intention is either the aim of an action, or a long-term constraint on what we can do [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20032

Bratman rejected reducing intentions to belief-desire, because they motivate, and have their own standards [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]