philosophy of as if

rests wholly on shuttling between simile and reality.

Recast in definition form from: “… itself rests wholly on this shifting between simile and reality. …”

as if

fiction

Hans Vaihinger

Immanuel Kant

pragmatism

absurdism

academic philosophy

aesthetics

analytic philosophy

anarchism

Ancient Greek Thought

anthropological philosophy

buddhist philosophy

classical liberalism

conservatism

continental philosophy

conversational philosophy

critical philosophy

critical theory

deconstruction

design for living

Eastern philosophy

ecosophy

Eleatic school

emanationism

empiricism

epistemology

ethics

European philosophy

existentialism

fictionalism

first philosophy

gay science

geophilosophy

hedonism

hermeneutic circle

hermeneutics

hermetic philosophy

idealism

Indian philosophy

jewish philosophy

kogaku

liberalism

logic

logical positivism

Mahayana philosophy

marxism

materialism

mechanical philosophy

metaphilosophy

metaphysics

minimal representationalism

modern philosophy

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

philosophy of as if, n.All

philosophy of as if