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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Extrinsic Properties' and 'Diffrance'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

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Being alone doesn't guarantee intrinsic properties; 'being alone' is itself extrinsic [Lewis, by Sider]

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Extrinsic properties come in degrees, with 'brother' less extrinsic than 'sibling' [Lewis]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

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Total intrinsic properties give us what a thing is [Lewis]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

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'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign [Derrida, by Glendinning]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]