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All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'Causation and the Manifestation of Powers'

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7 ideas

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]

19491

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

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation

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Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

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The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

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The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird]