{"id":753,"date":"2017-07-26T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/?p=753"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:44:20","slug":"knowledge-necessarily-uses-fictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2017\/07\/26\/knowledge-necessarily-uses-fictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge necessarily uses fictions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about on third of the way through Hans Vaihinger&#8217;s Philosophy of As If. I believe he is overall correct. I may differ on some details. E.g. even in Principia Mathematica classes are logical fictions. I suspect beyond even that Predicates (including relations) are also fictions. As is anything that can be named or described! Mind &#038; Matter are both fictions. Only instances of immediate experience are real &#8211; but they cannot be named or described!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about on third of the way through Hans Vaihinger&#8217;s Philosophy of As If. I believe he is overall correct. I may differ on some details. E.g. even in Principia Mathematica classes are logical fictions. I suspect beyond even that Predicates (including relations) are also fictions. As is anything that&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2017\/07\/26\/knowledge-necessarily-uses-fictions\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}