Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' and 'Events and Their Names'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

10364

Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]