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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Prologue to Ordinatio' and 'The Poetics'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

9100	Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts

2748	A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9101	Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]

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]