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All the ideas for 'General Draft', 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking' and 'Languages of Art (2nd edn)'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

19591

Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

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Art is a referential activity, hence indefinable, but it has a set of symptoms [Goodman]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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Artistic symbols are judged by the fruitfulness of their classifications [Goodman, by Giovannelli]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 7. Ontology of Art

20438

A performance is only an instance of a work if there is not a single error [Goodman]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 2. Copies of Art

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A copy only becomes an 'instance' of an artwork if there is a system of notation [Goodman]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]