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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intro to 'Provenance of Pure Reason'' and 'Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

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Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C]

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 / 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]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

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The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart]