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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Stephen Yablo and Phil Dowe

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

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For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo]

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Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo]

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'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo]

8864	We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]

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Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo]