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Philosophical views named for this property often draw on a book that compares “truths” with this property to the use of tree stumps as props in a child’s game about bears. Charles’s “quasi-fear” of green slime illustrates Kendall Walton’s solution to a paradox named for this property (10[1])that concerns “emotional response.” A sentence about a man with this property is analyzed with an “in such-and-such” operator in a paper titled for “Truth in” it (10[1])by David Lewis. (10[1])Positions named for this property, like Hartry Field’s one for math, take (10[1])their subjects to be “useful” entities with this property. This is the second of three title concepts of a book that uses a predicate that co-applies with greenness (10[1])until time t (10[1])to create a (10[1])“New Riddle of Induction.” (10[2]-5[2])For (10[1])10 points, the title of a Nelson Goodman book (-5[1])groups (10[1])what concept with “fact” (10[1])and “forecast”? (10[3])■END■ (10[5]0[5])

ANSWER: fictional [accept being make-believe; accept fictionalism or word forms; accept Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, useful fictions, fictional truths, “Truth in Fiction,” paradox of fiction, or “Fearing Fictions”; prompt on non-existence, being pretend, or equivalents] (The book in the first line is Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts.)
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