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    "title": "Classification of desires",
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    "definition_evidence_passages": [
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    "summary": "For Epicurus, desires are natural and necessary, natural but unnecessary, or neither natural nor necessary, arising from empty opinions.",
    "body": "In the current corpus, this annotation connects 25 passages across 18 works, including Nicomachean Ethics, On Ends, Tusculan Disputations. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.",
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        "désirs naturels",
        "desirs naturels",
        "natural desires",
        "necessary desires",
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        "desirs necessaires",
        "empty desires",
        "vains désirs",
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    ],
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        "passages": 25,
        "thinkers": 8,
        "traditions": 5
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