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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Sentences' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
19494 Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
18528 The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions
19493 Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [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]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
16589 Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
16651 God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]