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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'fragments/reports' and 'I.39 On Solitude'

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6 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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5987	Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]

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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure

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We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age [Montaigne]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

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Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]