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The psychological plausibility of religious fictionalism [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2016
In this paper I explain the psychological plausibility of religious fictionalism by finding the proper form of fiction that is analogous in relevant aspects to religious practice.
Đurković Nikola
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HUMECU KURGUCULUĞUN KENDİLİKSİZ BİLİŞ ANLAYIŞI

Felsefe Dünyası, 2023
Geleneksel bilişselci yaklaşımlar, algılama, akıl yürütme ve hafıza gibi bilişsel süreçlerin gerçekleşmesini olanaklı kılan, arka planda özdeş ve bütünleşik bir zihnin varlığını ön dayanak haline getirirler.
Ayşe Uslu Pooyanı
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Designing as playing games of make-believe

Design Science, 2020
Designing complex products involves working with uncertainties as the product, the requirements and the environment in which it is used co-evolve, and designers and external stakeholders make decisions that affect the evolving design.
Michael Poznic, Martin Stacey, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Claudia Eckert   +3 more
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Hans Vaihingers Die Philosophie des Als-Ob: Pragmatismus oder Fiktionalismus?

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2016
This paper is a summary of a course taught at the University of Trier in 2010. It aims to show that Hans Vaihinger’s philosophy of “as if” has been long neglected because it is alleged to be no more than a pale variant of a pragmatism à la James. This is
Christophe Bouriau
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Colour Fictionalism

Rivista di Estetica, 2010
In How to Speak of the Colors, Mark Johnston’s claims that eliminativism would require us to jettison colour discourse. In this paper, I challenge Johnston’s claim.
Dimitria Electra Gatzia
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Fiction and Fictionalism

, 2023
A fictionalist theory is a theory that concerns a particular sphere of discourse, and is meant to encompass three theoretical virtues: a naturalistic ontology; an antirevisionary attitude concerning our discursive practices; and the ability to foster semantic uniformity across discursive spheres.
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Nietsche's and Pessoa's psychological fictionalism [PDF]

Pessoa Plural, 2016
In a note to G.R.S. Mead's Quests Old and New, where he found a section devoted to Hans Vaihinger's main ideas, Fernando Pessoa reflects on the consequences of the fictionalist approach to both our perception of the I and the value of consciousness ...
Cardiello, António, Gori, Pietro
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Models As Fictions, Fictions As Models [PDF]

The Monist, 2016
Thinking of models in science as fictions is said to be helpful, not merely because models are known or assumed to be false, but because work on the nature of fiction helps us understand what models are and how they work. I am unpersuaded. For example, instead of trying to assimilate truth-in-a model to truth-in-fiction we do better to see both as ...
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What Kind of Non-Realism is Fictionalism?

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Fictionalists about a kind of disputed entity aim to give a face-value interpretation of our discourse about those entities without affirming their existence.
Nathaniel Gan
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Fictionalism and mathematical explanations

Filosofia Unisinos, 2019
In this paper, I place Mary Leng’s version of mathematical instrumentalism within the context of the debate in mathematical realism/anti-realism as well as within the context of the platonism/nominalism debate.
Pamela Ann Jose Boongaling
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