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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Theology and Verification' and 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?'

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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]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / c. Religious Verification
1470 Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG]
1471 It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification
1469 Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG]