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Reicher, Maria Elisabeth. "Fiction and Metaphysics". Grazer Philosophische Studien 57 (1999): 325–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/gps19995716.

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Varzi, Achille C., e Amie L. Thomasson. "Fiction and Metaphysics". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63, n.º 3 (novembro de 2001): 723. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3071170.

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Zemach, E. M. "Fiction and Metaphysics". Philosophical Review 112, n.º 3 (1 de julho de 2003): 427–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-3-427.

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Lycan, William G. "METAPHYSICS AND THE PARONYMY OF NAMES". American Philosophical Quarterly 55, n.º 4 (1 de outubro de 2018): 405–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/45128634.

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Abstract Paronymy—ambiguity that is not sheer ambiguity—is underdiscussed by philosophers of language. And hardly anyone has noticed that proper names are paronymous; different occurrences of a single name have slightly and subtly different referents. This paper invokes that fact to illuminate some issues in metaphysics: a puzzle about fictional characters; Jennifer Saul’s phenomenon of referential opacity in the absence of opacity-inducing operators; the relation between persons and bodies; death; personal identity through time; and Peter Ludlow’s argument for the zany claim that the distinction between fiction and actuality is merely contextual.

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Michelson, Jared. "Covenantal history and participatory metaphysics: formulating a Reformed response to the charge of legal fiction". Scottish Journal of Theology 71, n.º 4 (novembro de 2018): 391–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930618000595.

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AbstractTo combat the charges raised by Radical Orthodoxy and others, which allege that Protestant soteriologies amount to a legal fiction, Bruce McCormack and Michael Horton suggest that Reformed theology embrace a covenantal ontology, which aims to overcome legal fiction objections without sacrificing Reformational insights or making recourse to medieval participatory metaphysics. For both theologians, covenantal history and participatory metaphysics are treated as rival paradigms. I suggest that their proposals display serious weaknesses and propose an alternative approach, inspired by the retrieval of Reformed scholastic insights, which treats covenant and participatory metaphysics as complementary motifs rather than rival paradigms, and is thereby able to overcome the legal fiction objection while maintaining Protestant distinctives.

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Klebes, Martin. "If Worlds Were Stories". Konturen 2, n.º 1 (11 de outubro de 2010): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.2.1.1346.

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The metaphysics of possible worlds proposed by the analytic philosopher David K. Lewis offers an account of fictional discourse according to which possible worlds described in fiction are just as real as the actual world. In an inspired reversal of the analysis of literary fictions by such philosophical means, the French poet Jacques Roubaud makes direct reference to Lewis’ controversial ontological picture in two cycles of elegies composed between 1986 and 1990. Roubaud’s poems take up the idea of possible worlds as real entities, and at the same time they challenge the notion that philosophy could offer an account of fiction in which the puzzling collision of the possible with the impossible that fundamentally characterizes the phenomenon of fictionality would be seamlessly unravelled. For Roubaud the lyrical genre of the elegy and its thematic concern with love and death stands as a prime indicator of the quandary that results from our inability to solve paradoxes of modality such as those raised by Lewis in strictly theoretical terms.

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Drouillard, Jean-Raoul Austin de. "Les Météores ou le Mythe Gémellaire revisité". Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 43, n.º 1 (7 de abril de 2008): 124–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.43.1.10aus.

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The twins’ myth, whose origins go back to times immemorial, has always been a popular motif for fiction. It generally reflects the idea of “duality”, alienation and the search for Self and for the Other, which always end in an impasse. Self and for the Other, which always end in an impasse. With his novel Les Météores, portraying the twins Paul and Jean, Michel Tournier breaks away from this idea of “duality” and substitutes it with the idea of a “couple” through a mythic, metaphysical and symbolic approach whose outcome is sublimation. Initiation in a work of fiction by means of myths and symbols leads to something whose ethical dimension is realized by joining together difference and fraternity and by holding to the difference. It endeavours to carry out the transmutation of metaphysics in the work of fiction and the change from profane to sacred, from myth to the imaginary and to poetry.

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Haggerty, George E., e Dieter Meindl. "American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque". American Literature 70, n.º 1 (março de 1998): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2902491.

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Ling, Alex, Barbara Cassin e Michel Narcy. "Pre-Socratics and Post-Moderns". Journal of Continental Philosophy 1, n.º 2 (2020): 217–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jcp202121515.

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In this text Cassin and Narcy begin their reassessment of the mode of thought that is sophistry, which has historically functioned as the (negative) “other” of classical philosophy. To this end, the authors first present a close reading of Book Gamma of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, understood as a concerted “strategy against sophism” that, in establishing a logical basis for metaphysics, seeks to relegate the former to the sidelines once and for all. What proves ineliminable in this operation, however, and which “resurfaces beyond metaphysics,” is discourse itself. Cassin and Narcy then set about exploring the contemporary resurgences of sophistry, first through the discourse of (novelistic) fiction, then, more rigorously, in the work of Jacques Lacan, whose own thought poses radical challenges to the relation of language to meaning

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MOARCĂS, Georgeta. "Dracula Metaphysics. Exploring the Vampire Motif in Contemporary Women’s Fiction". Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 14 (63), Special Issue (janeiro de 2022): 188–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2021.63.14.3.12.

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Three women writers, Elisabeth Kostova, Doina Ruști, and Ruxandra Ivăncescu chose the vampire motif as the core of their historiographical metafiction. The principle of verisimilitude that dominates their prose writing in different percentages, transforms the narrative strategy into an initiation journey for interpreting various traces left behind by a mysterious character. They are blending into their prose writing historic archival facts, popular knowledge embedded in folktales and ballads, as well as important artifacts. As requested by the literary convention, their vampire becomes a time traveler, interested in maintaining power and offering protection to a few ones, a more intellectual and at times a good-natured character, stripped of his sensuality.

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Smeriglio, Kristina. "Hallowed Be Thy Fall". NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/writing_etd/35.

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All Priella wanted was to find love. She roamed the fields of the Garden of Earthly Delights, day by day, in the hopes of finally attaining it. But, it wasn't that simple. In the midst of an existential crisis, unable to understand her difficulty in relating to others and achieving happiness, Priella meets the Archangel Michael who offers her a chance at salvation. Venturing into the unknown, Priella is forced to face the distorted ways of thinking that kept her hostage.

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Muller, Cathleen. "Harry Potter and the Rescue from Realism: A Novel Defense of Anti-Realism about Fictional Objects". The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330719422.

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Mfune, Damazio Laston. "My other - my self: post-Cartesian ontological possibilities in the fiction of J M Coetzee". Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002289.

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The central argument of my study is that, among other matters, in his works, J.M. Coetzee could be said to demonstrate that the known Self is an embodied being and is not autonomous. With regard to the latter contention, Coetzee intimates that any two Subjects are implicated in each other’s subjectivities in a reciprocal process that involves what Derek Attridge has called “irruptions of otherness” (2005: xii) into the Subject’s subjectivity. These irruptions, which happen during the encounter, lead to a double loss of autonomy for each Subject and this phenomenon renders the relationship between Subjects non-dichotomus or non-binaric. In other words, the Subject does not produce the contents of his or her consciousness in a sui generis and ex nihilo fashion, and his or her ontological indebtedness to the Other constitutes his or her first loss of autonomy. As for those Others that do possess consciousness, the Subject is implicated in their consciousness and this constitutes the Subject’s second loss of autonomy. These losses counter the near solipsistic Nagelian neo-Cartesianism and paves the way for imagining both intra- and inter-species “intersubjectivity”. It is my view that this double loss of autonomy accounts for the sympathetic and empathetic imagination that we encounter in Coetzee’s fiction. Following Coetzee’s intimations of intersubjectivity through irruptions of otherness, what I see as my contribution to studies on this author’s work through this study is the link I have established between the physicalist strain within the philosophy of mind (whose central thesis is that consciousness is an embodied phenomenon) and a modified Kantian “metaphysics”, especially Immanuel Kant’s conception of concepts as comprising form and content. I have deployed this conception in demonstrating the Subject’s ontological indebtedness to external sources of the content part of consciousness. And, through the Husserlian concept of intentionality, and Kant’s (1929: 27) observation that we cannot have appearances without something that appears, I have linked the Subject to the sources of his or her content and thereby also demonstrated that the Subject is not eternally separated or alienated from those sources. Instead, the Subject is not simply contiguous but coterminous and co-extensive, albeit in a mediated way, with the external sources of the content part of his or her consciousness. Thus, while accepting the thesis of the Other’s radical otherness, I modify the thesis of the Other’s radical exteriority. Ultimately, then, ontologically speaking, the Coetzeean project could be described as one of embodying and grounding the supposedly autonomous, solipsistic and freefloating/disembodied Cartesian Subject. This he does by alerting this Subject, first and foremost, to its embodiedness and, further to that, pointing out its ontological indebtedness to its Others and its implication in the Others’s consciousnesses and so prevent it from continuing with its imperialistic and ecological barbarities. However, ethically speaking, beyond the reciprocal ethics that arises from mutual ontological indebtedness and implication, it is the selflessness that characterises a cruciform logic that comes across as the epitome of Coetzeean ethics.

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Fontaine, Matthieu. "Argumentation et engagement ontologique de l’acte intentionnel : Pour une réflexion critique sur l’identité dans les logiques intentionnelles explicites". Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30025/document.

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L'intentionalité est la faculté qu'a l'esprit humain de se diriger vers des objets de toutes sortes. On la capture linguistiquement à travers l'usage de verbes comme "savoir", "croire", "craindre", "espérer". Les énoncés intentionnels comme "Jean croit que Nosferatu est un vampire" ou "Oedipe aime Jocaste" défient les lois de la logique classique, remettant en cause la validité de principes logiques tels que la généralisation existentielle ou encore la substitution des identiques. Je propose dans ma thèse une analyse fondée sur les logiques intentionnelles explicites, des logiques où le langage est enrichi au moyen d'opérateurs qui expriment explicitement l'intentionalité. Des aspects originaux de la signification des énoncés intentionnels sont saisis au coeur des pratiques argumentatives, dans le contexte de la logique dialogique notamment. S'intéressant plus spécifiquement au cas de la fictionalité, paradigme où se mêlent naturellement considérations logiques, linguistiques et métaphysiques, je défends une théorie artefactuelle dans laquelle on définit des critères d'existence et d'identité pour les identités fictionnelles littéraires au moyen de la notion de relation de dépendance ontologique. La notion de dépendance ontologique est toutefois sujette à de graves difficultés que l'on repasse ici dans le contexte d'une sémantique modale-Temporelle, défendant alors une approche novatrice de la dimension artefactuelle des fictions. In fine, on propose une combinaison de la théorie artefactuelle à une sémantique pour l'opérateur de fictionalité qui permet l'articulation entre différents points de vue sur la fiction, les points de vue interne et externe notamment
Intentionality is that faculty of human mind whereby it is directed towards objects of all kinds. It is recorded linguistically in verbs such as "to know", "to believe", "to fear", "to hope". Intentional statements such as "John thinks that Nosferatu is a vampire" or "Oedipus loves Jocasta" challenge classical logical laws such as existential generalization or substitution of identical. I propose here an analysis grounded on explicit intentional logics, i. e. logics in which languages are enriched by means of specific operators expressing intentionality. Some original aspects of the meanings of intentional statements are grasped within argumentative practices, more specifically in the context of dialogical logic. I focus more specifically on fictionality, a paradigm in which logical, linguistic and metaphysical considerations are naturally embedded. I defend an artifactual theory in which existence and identity criteria for fictional entities are defined by means of the notion of ontological dependence relation. That notion faces several difficulties overcome here in a modal-Temporal semantics in which an innovating approach to the artifactual diemnsion of fiction is defended. Ultimately, a combination of that theory to a semantic for the fictionality operator is suggested. This enable us to articulate external and internal viewpoints on fictionality

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Wynn, Freda A. "Alternative realities/The multiverse a metaphysical conundrum /". unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11142005-155256/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.
Title from title screen. Kay Beck, committee chair; Edward J. Friedman, Kathryn H. Fuller, committee members. Electronic text (124 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-124).

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Sanyal, Sudipto. "An Uncertain Poetics of the Intoxicated Narrative: Drugs, Detection, Denouement". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367932599.

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袁洪庚 e Honggeng Yuan. "From conventional to experimental: the makingof Chinese metaphysical detective fiction". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894422.

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Yuan, Honggeng. "From conventional to experimental : the making of Chinese metaphysical detective fiction /". Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21556398.

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Wynn, Freda A. "Alternative Realities/The Multiverse: A Metaphysical Conundrum". Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/4.

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Films of every era reflect the concerns and fears of Western society. The acceleration of technology, the loss of a concrete world, the uneasy relationship with humans and ever increasing complex machines are inducing a fear of losing the ability to discern reality. The reality of ideas from science and the world around are woven into the narratives that we use to explain life.The films we watch reflect our hopes and fears and as the fears increase so do films with a shared theme of alternative realities. To know reality and search for the true Self is the job of the hero and the protagonist in recent alternative reality films.

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Giddens, Thomas Philip. "Comics, crime, and the moral self : an interdisciplinary study of criminal identity". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3622.

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An ethical understanding of responsibility should entail a richly qualitative comprehension of the links between embodied, unique individuals and their lived realities of behaviour. Criminal responsibility theory broadly adheres to ‘rational choice’ models of the moral self which subsume individuals’ emotionally embodied dimensions under the general direction of their rational will and abstracts their behaviour from corporeal reality. Linking individuals with their behaviour based only on such understandings of ‘rational choice’ and abstract descriptions of behaviour overlooks the phenomenological dimensions of that behaviour and thus its moral significance as a lived experience. To overcome this ethical shortcoming, engagement with the aesthetic as an alternative discourse can help articulate the ‘excessive’ nature of lived reality and its relationship with ‘orthodox’ knowledge; fittingly, the comics form involves interaction of rational, non-rational, linguistic, and non-linguistic dimensions, modelling the limits of conceptual thought in relation to complex reality. Rational choice is predicated upon a split between a contextually embedded self and an abstractly autonomous self. Analysis of the graphic novel Watchmen contends that prioritisation of rational autonomy over sensual experience is symptomatic of a ‘rational surface’ that turns away from the indeterminate ‘chaos’ of complex reality (the unstructured universe), instead maintaining the power of rational and linguistic concepts to order the world. This ‘rational surface’ is maintained by masking that which threatens its stability: the chaos of the infinite difference of living individuals. These epistemological foundations are reconfigured, via Watchmen, enabling engagement beyond the ‘rational surface’ by accepting the generative potential of this living chaos and calling for models of criminal identity that are ‘restless’, acknowledging the unique, shifting nature of individuals, and not tending towards ‘complete’ or stable concepts of the self-as-responsible. As part of the aesthetic methodology of this reconfiguration, a radical extension of legal theory’s analytical canon is developed.

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Livros sobre o assunto "Metaphysics – Fiction"

Prawer, S. S. Breeches and metaphysics. Oxford: Legenda, 1998.

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Unreality: The metaphysics of fictional objects. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

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Nahin, Paul J. Time machines: Time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction. New York, N.Y: American Institute of Physics, 1993.

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Nahin, Paul J. Time machines: Time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction. 2^a ed. [Woodbury, N.Y.]: AIP Press, 1999.

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White, Curtis. Metaphysics in the Midwest: Stories. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1988.

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Prawer, Siegbert Salomon. Breeches and metaphysics: Thackeray's German discourse. Oxford: Legenda, 1997.

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Voltolini, Alberto. How ficta follow fiction: A syncretistic account of fictional entities. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

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Jaén, Didier Tisdel. Borges' esoteric library: Metaphysics to metafiction. Lanham: University Press of America, 1992.

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Dolan, Frederick Michael. Allegories of America: Narratives, metaphysics, politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.

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Wegener, Franz. Gnosis in High Tech und Science-Fiction. Gladbeck: KFVR, 2009.

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Chalmers, David J. "The Matrixas Metaphysics". In Science Fiction and Philosophy, 35–54. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118922590.ch5.

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Franke, William. "The Metaphysics of Fiction". In Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature, 186–202. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032689005-9.

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Rosen, Gideon, e Cian Dorr. "Composition as a Fiction". In The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, 151–74. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470998984.ch8.

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Cook, Michael. "Tony Hillerman’s Cultural Metaphysics". In Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story, 165–78. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137294890_10.

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Rée, Jonathan. "The End of Metaphysics: Philosophy’s Supreme Fiction?" In Philosophy, its History and Historiography, 3–26. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5317-8_1.

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Miguens, Sofia. "What Is the Difference Between Hamlet and Me? Fiction, Metaphysics and the Nature of Our Moral Thinking". In Abstract Objects, 239–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38242-1_12.

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Merivale, Patricia. "Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection". In A Companion to Crime Fiction, 308–20. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444317916.ch24.

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Dechêne, Antoine. "From the Metaphysical Detective Story to the Metacognitive Mystery Tale". In Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge, 13–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94469-2_2.

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Caddick Bourne, Emily. "Fictionalism in metaphysics". In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780415249126-n130-1.

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Fictionalism proposes that a certain discourse – such as talk about possible worlds, or mathematical talk – is useful, perhaps even indispensable for theoretical purposes, but should not be taken as true. The fictionalist argues that the content of this discourse can be treated as fictional – as belonging to ‘the fiction of many possible worlds’ or ‘the fiction of numbers as objects’, for example. By adopting this treatment, they propose that we can have the benefits which are offered by positing entities such as worlds, without believing in them. In this way, fictionalism tries to offer a way in which we can engage in and make sense of the same kind of talk a realist licenses, but without the realist’s metaphysical commitments. ‘Fictionalism’ is a term of art, and its boundaries with neighbouring positions such as quasi-realism, error theory and deflationism are not always clear-cut, but a distinctive idea fictionalism brings to metaphysics is that we might make sense of an area of discourse by giving a realist account the status of fiction. One way some fictionalists account for an area of discourse in fictionalist terms is by making use of fiction operators such as ‘It is true in the many-worlds fiction that …’ or ‘According to the fiction of numbers as objects …’ Another way is by suggesting that participating in such discourse could be something done in a spirit of pretence: what the realist suggests would be explained by believing in certain objects or taking certain statements to be true can, the fictionalist suggests, be explained by construing the discourse as something more like a game of make-believe in which we imagine certain objects to exist and certain facts to obtain. Some challenges for fictionalism stem from the nature of fiction itself. For example, fictional characters, or fictions themselves, might be best understood as abstract objects, but some fictionalists want to avoid committing to abstract entities. Fictions can also be unlike the discourses fictionalists wish to capture, in certain significant ways. Other potential problems for fictionalism include a threat that it is self-defeating, some difficulties with characterizing what the content of the fiction is, and a challenge that philosophers do not know best concerning the commitments of other people’s discourse.

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"Fiction and experience". In Fiction and Metaphysics, 76–92. Cambridge University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527463.009.

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