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All the ideas for 'What is the Basis of Moral Obligation?', 'Characteristics' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

9254	In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard]

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

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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

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Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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The disinterested attitude of the judge is the hallmark of a judgement of beauty [Shaftesbury, by Scruton]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

9256	I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard]

9257	The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

9255	Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard]