Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism', 'fragments/reports' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8011	Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church [Luther, by MacIntyre]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

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

19494

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

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6609	With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther]