Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet' and 'works'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine]

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]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

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]