Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism' and 'Knowledge by Acquaintance and Description-1'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

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I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

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

19494

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

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

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We know a universal in 'yellow differs from blue' or 'yellow resembles blue less than green does' [Russell]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

19493

Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

8854	My 'acquaintance' with sense-data is nothing like my knowing New York [Williams,M on Russell]