Elusive Fictional Truth
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Abstract We argue that some fictional truths are fictionally true by default. also these subject to being undermined. propose the context within which we evaluate what is changes when a possibility was previously ignorable brought attention. cases support model of truth makes conversational dynamics determining in fiction structurally akin knowledge-ascription, as this understood David Lewis’s contextualist approach knowledge. show how number rules Lewis proposes for case knowledge-ascription can be employed develop novel and powerful framework fiction.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Aesthetics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1468-2842', '0007-0904']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab034