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All the ideas for 'Prologue to Ordinatio', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'The Tragic Sense of Life'

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6 ideas

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

19489

For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo]

19490

Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo]

19491

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

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

9100	Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9101	Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20740

Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]