Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Identity' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

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]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

8970	Our notion of identical sets involves identical members, which needs absolute identity [Hawthorne]