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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Roots of Reference' and 'Life of Pythagoras'

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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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

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]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

1515	Pythagoreans believe it is absurd to seek for goodness anywhere except with the gods [Iamblichus]