Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'lectures' and 'Letters to Blijenburgh'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge [Galloway]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
God no more has human perfections than we have animal perfections [Spinoza]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
A talking triangle would say God is triangular [Spinoza]