This article discusses an interpretation, recently proposed by Mark Siderits, of the claim that within the Buddhist tradition the self is a convenient fiction. It subsequently proposes a novel approach to fictionalism in contemporary metaphysics, outlines an application of such an approach to the case of the self, and then specifies one version of fictionalism combined with some basic tenets of Buddhism.
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I. Buddhist Reductionism 1274 Buddhist Reductionism and the Doctrine of Two Truths 1276 II. Fictionalisms and Fictionalism about the Self 1277 Entertaining and Fictionalism 1278 Particularist and Generalist Fictionalism about the Self and Esoteric and Exoteric Buddhist Fictionalism 1282 III. Objections and Conclusions 1284 Notes 1285
