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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'What is Mathematical Truth?' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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5 ideas

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

19489

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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

10269

Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]