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All the ideas for 'Constitutional Code I', 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

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Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]

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

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Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach]

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Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman]

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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

5271	Prejudice apart, push-pin has equal value with music and poetry [Bentham]