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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'General Draft' and 'Quodlibeta'

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8 ideas

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

22026

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

16007

I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

16657

Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

16658

The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22012

Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]

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]