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All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'Investigations into Logical Deduction'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 4. Natural Deduction

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Natural deduction shows the heart of reasoning (and sequent calculus is just a tool) [Gentzen, by Hacking]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

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Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]