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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Critique?' and 'Real Natures and Familiar Objects'

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9 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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

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Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

13798

Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

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The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder]

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Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder]

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]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 3. Government / a. Government

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The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault]