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Fictionalism in Metaphysics
Article first published online: 10 NOV 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00442.x
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Kroon, F. (2011), Fictionalism in Metaphysics. Philosophy Compass, 6: 786–803. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00442.x
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Abstract
This is a survey of contemporary work on ‘fictionalism in metaphysics’, a term that is taken to signify both the place of fictionalism as a distinctive anti-realist metaphysics in which usefulness rather than truth is the norm of acceptance, and the fact that philosophers have given fictionalist treatments of a range of specifically metaphysical notions.