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All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'Internal and External Reasons'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

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Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]