Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Letter to Mersenne' and 'Anselm and Actuality'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic
For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
The more reasons that compel me, the freer I am [Descartes]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]