Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rights of Man' and 'Conditionals and Possibilia'

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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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

13858

The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable [Jackson, by Edgington]

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]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 3. Constitutions

23261

A people, not government, creates a constitution, which is essential for legitimacy [Paine]