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All the ideas for 'Reasons for Actions and Desires', 'The Poetics' and 'The Problem of Natural Laws'

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4 ideas

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 / b. Intellectualism

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I don't understand the idea of a reason for acting, but it is probably the agent's interests or desires [Foot]

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 / 3. Laws and Generalities

4800	Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos]