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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals' and 'On Fate ('De fato')'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

21677

How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

21667

Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

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

22511

Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

21678

If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

1477	Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure

1478	Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

1479	Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch]