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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Inverted Earth' and 'Summula philosophiae naturalis'

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7 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]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

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Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion [William of Ockham]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

6172	The Inverted Earth example shows that phenomenal properties are not representational [Block, by Rowlands]

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]