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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What Does It All Mean?' and '11: Book of Kings 1'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / n. Pi

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He made a molten sea, which was ten cubits across, and thirty cubits round the edge [Anon (Kings)]

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 / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]

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]