The Status of Truth in Science-Fictional and Scriptural Texts: Captain KirkTM Meets Captain Moroni
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Supposition Error: a novel uses several familar science fiction devices (time-travel, spaceflight, alien encounters, etc.) to illustrate for lay persons and students the dynamics of the philosophy of meaning formulated by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914). In this paper I shall use Peirce's framework in an academic context, to compare and contrast my treatment of The Book of Mormon in the novel Supposition Error with two other works that employ science-fictional devices to illustrate Book of Mormon events: Orson Scott Card's The Memory of Earth and Chris Heimerdinger's Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites. In brief, Peirce's three basic categories of meaning are each neatly illustrated by one of these three fictional treatments of The Book of Mormon :
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