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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'Amphitheatrum'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine]

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]

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

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter is nothing but its parts [Vanini]