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All the ideas for 'Dialektik', 'Intro to 'Essays on Actions and Events'' 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 / 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]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument

6383	Cause unites our picture of the universe; without it, mental and physical will separate [Davidson]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

6385	The causally strongest reason may not be the reason the actor judges to be best [Davidson]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

6384	The notion of cause is essential to acting for reasons, intentions, agency, akrasia, and free will [Davidson]