Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Carrie Jenkins and Stephen Yablo

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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]

8864	We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]

19494

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