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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Logical Foundations of Probability' and 'Apprehension: reason in absence of Rules'

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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]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense

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Apprehension is a complex intellect grasping the essence of a complex object [Holt,L]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

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Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon]

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]