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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'The Poetics' and 'Euthyphro'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

335	Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato]

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]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

336	Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato]

337	It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato]