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Ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'From Metaphysics to Ethics'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6984	Smooth reductions preserve high-level laws in the lower level [Jackson]

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]

19490

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

19491

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

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

6978	Baldness is just hair distribution, but the former is indeterminate, unlike the latter [Jackson]