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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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6 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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

10994

Conditionals are true if minimal revision of the antecedent verifies the consequent [Stalnaker, by Read]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

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]