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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism' and 'The Web of Belief'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian]

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

19043

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

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

19042

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

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

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