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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Paradox without Self-Reference' and 'Against Barbaric physics'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

9138	An infinite series of sentences asserting falsehood produces the paradox without self-reference [Yablo, by Sorensen]

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]

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 / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

16709

Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]