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All the ideas for 'Behaviorism', 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7517	I could take a healthy infant and train it up to be any type of specialist I choose [Watson,JB]