Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Opus Maius (major works)' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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5 ideas

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]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences

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No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R]