Russell on constructions and fictions

Theoria 46 (1):19-36 (1980)
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Russell says that logical constructions are fictions. Does this show that he took them not to be real things?

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10.1111/j.1755-2567.1980.tb00687.x

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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1965 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Philosophy of logic.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1970 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Edited by Simon Blackburn & Keith Simmons.
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1955 - Philosophy 31 (118):268-269.

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