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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe [PDF]

SynthÈse, 2022
AbstractCounterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with nomologically or metaphysically impossible antecedents, namely, counternomics or counterpossibles. In this paper I defend the make-believe view of scientific counterfactuals, a naturalised fiction-
Noelia Iranzo-Ribera
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Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence [PDF]

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2015
This paper discusses the morality of make-believing deviant moral truths within the context of fictional narratives (e.g. make-believing that the killing of innocent people is a morally good thing to do).
Garry Young
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Twofold pictorial experience, propositional imagining and recognitional concepts: a critique of Walton’s visual make-believe [PDF]

Phenomenology and Mind, 2018
Kendall Walton has defined pictorial experience as a visual game of make-believe, which consists in imagining our actual seeing the representational prop to be a fictional face to face seeing the represented subject.
Marco Arienti
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The ontology of theoretical modelling: models as make-believe [PDF]

, 2009
publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleThe descriptions and theoretical laws scientists write down when they model a system are often false of any real system. And yet we commonly talk as if there were objects that satisfy the scientists’ assumptions
Adam Toon
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Religious Credences as Hinges: A Commentary on Van Leeuwen's Religion as Make-Believe

Zygon
In this commentary, we critically discuss Neil van Leeuwen’s book Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity.
Alberto Cavallarin, Hans Van Eyghen
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Make-believe [PDF]

Nature, 1889
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Eros as Make-believe: Deceptions of Sights and Anamorphosis in Literature from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Between, 2019
The essay analyzes the relationships between the fictions of eros and, especially, of adultery, and the “fictional worlds” of literature (Pavel), focusing on the period from late Humanism (Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) to ...
Chiara Lombardi
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Beliefs, make-beliefs, and making believe that beliefs are not make-beliefs

SynthÈse, 2021
Alberto Voltolini
exaly   +3 more sources

Registration Make-Believe and Forgery – Swift 1st v Chief Land Registrar [PDF]

, 2015
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Sweet & Maxwell in The Law Quarterly Review, Vol. 131, pp. 515-519.
Emma Lees
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Introspection as a Game of Make‐Believe [PDF]

Theoria, 2014
AbstractThe aim of this article is to provide an account of introspective knowledge concerning visual experiences that is in accordance with the idea of transparent introspection. According to transparent introspection, a person gains knowledge of her own current mental state M solely by paying attention to those aspects of the external world which M ...
Wolfgang Barz
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