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The Philosophy of 'As if': A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind (1924) Hans Vaihinger - An Influential, mind opening book, Vaihinger’s basic concept is that there are useful fictions we can use to base real life on. For example scientific models are actually just approximations, but if we treat them as certain, things work fine and planes get off the ground and rockets fly to the moon. We live in a world of approximations and false realities. You can be a dorky kid in the suburbs, but go on Tik-Tok and act AS IF you’re cool and get a few million people following you who think you’re cool and then, well, then you really are cool. Vaihinger’s ideas have aged well and have been incorporated into other systems such as NLP.
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