Macbeth is one of the great tragedies Shakespeare. Its two central characters and Lady at last turn out to be nihilists in play. Because execution their evil design, commission crime, morbid psychology, frailties, sheer oscillation, losing convictions, breaking order natural human instinct above all condition being childless, they succumb political, ethical existential nihilism despair. With re...

Recently, several philosophers have proposed fictionalist accounts of truthtalk, as a means for resolving the semantic pathology that the Liar Paradox appears to present. These alethic fictionalists aim to vindicate truth-talk as a kind of as if discourse, while rejecting that the talk attributes any real property of truth. Liggins (Analysis 74:566–574, 2014) has recently critically assessed on...