Meaning of fictionalism | Babel Free

Definitions

The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions

countable, uncountable

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“But it seems to me that modal fictionalism is also incredible: normally we do not think that there are countless theories and stories besides the ones we will ever tell, much less that they are infinitely complex and infinitely long and so that it would be humanly impossible to tell them.”

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