Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Introducing Persons' and 'On the Reality of Accidents'

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7 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]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

19382

Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

1394	Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers]

1395	Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity

1396	We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers]

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]