Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ruling Passions' and 'On the Principles of Indiscernibles'

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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]

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]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

23996

Akrasia is intelligible in hindsight, when we revisit our previous emotions [Blackburn]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

2116	The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz]