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

atomism

bergsonism

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

philosophy of as if, n.Definitions

philosophy of as if