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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'On the Source of Necessity' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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6 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

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

19494

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

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

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]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

15104

The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]