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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes' and 'The Concept of Dread (/Anxiety)'

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9 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 / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

9471	Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised [Quine]

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]

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

22098

Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

22096

Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

22097

The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

21909

Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

20758

Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard]