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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Voetius' and 'Physiologia'

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5 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]

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

16674

The quantity is just the matter, in that it has extended parts and is diffuse [Charleton]

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]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

16712

Atheism is an atrocious and intolerable crime in any country [Descartes]