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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Natural Science (lost)' and '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

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

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

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]