Poem and Theorem: Notes on Truth and Fiction

On Parmenides' Poem: "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Opinion"

Is It Just To Call It The Zarrin-Ghaba? A Review of the Long Epic Poem: Shahnaame Asadi (Zarrin-Ghaba-Nameh)

Asadi's Shahname, Zarrin-Ghaba-Nameh, is an epic poem (epopee) with a total of 23,133 lines. It was reprinted in 2014 based on Sajjad Aydanlou’s corrections and his research project named Epic Literature and Research Collection. The core plot of this poem is similar to the plots of the stories in the traditional dramatic story telling (Naqqali) with narratives about several different corps and ...

The Reality of Arabic Fiction Translation into English: A Sociological Approach

English translations of texts associated with Arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of Arabic fiction translation into English as a socially situated activity. Works of Arabic fiction emerged in English translation in the early twentieth century. Since then, this intellectual field...

Lewis on Meinongian Logic

In “Truth in Fiction,” David Lewis raises four objections to a Meinongian semantics of fiction. Lewis does not deny that a Meinongian logic of fiction could be made to work, but identifies disadvantages in Meinongian semantics as a reason for recommending his own possible worlds alternative. A Meinongian semantics proposes to explain meaning without ontological prejudice. It analyzes the meanin...

فخریات قدسی در دیوان ابن‌عربی

The history of egotism is as long as human`s life. It shows that human being is interested in self-love which is expressing and praising his beauty. In the “poem of egotism”, the poet appreciates all his properties. One of the fundamental topics in the poem of egoism is praising religious beliefs and specific knowledge. One of the specific types of religious egotism is related to highly spiri...