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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letter to Mersenne' and 'Darwinian Metaphysics: Species and Essentialism'

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5 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]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will

3789	The more reasons that compel me, the freer I am [Descartes]

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]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

17366

Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha]