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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intentionality and the Physical: reply to Mumford' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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6 ideas

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

18088

Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

18089

Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place]