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All the ideas for 'works', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'Difficulties of Transfinite Numbers and Types'

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7 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]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism

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'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell]

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We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell]

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

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

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

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For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo]

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Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo]

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'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo]