Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Symposium', 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism' and 'Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference'

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4 ideas

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

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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

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

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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'Partial reference' is when the subject thinks two objects are one object [Field,H, by Recanati]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

5845	Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon]