Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Commentary on the Sentences' and 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts

16792

If parts change, the whole changes [William of Ockham]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

19045

Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]