Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Gorgias, Hippias and Godfrey Vesey

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5 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]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data

6457	Sensations are mental, but sense-data could be mind-independent [Vesey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

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]