Definition of "fictionalism" [fictionalism]

• The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions (noun)

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• "Let us call the fictionalism according to which there is a literal use of the sentences in question with which the ordinary use contrasts use fictionalism; call the other meaning fictionalism."
• "Let's move on now to a discussion of fictionalism, which is the last option for nominalists."
• "Craig then goes on to discuss an a posteriori establishment of Premise #1, but Craig treads carefully here: "I remain uncertain of this argument ... which would require us to reject various nominalistic alternatives to conceptualism such as fictionalism, constructabilism, figuralism, and so forth."