6 ideas
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] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
8592 | Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker] |