Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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4 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 / 9. Counterfactuals

12191

Counterfactuals are true if logical or natural laws imply the consequence [Goodman, by McFetridge]

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]

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

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