Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'The Scientific Image' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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6 ideas

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

19494

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

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

23900

Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

19493

Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

23899

The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]