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All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Open Society and Its Enemies:Hegel and Marx' and 'What is an Idea?'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]
18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]