书目名称 | Truth in Fiction |
副标题 | Rethinking its Logic |
编辑 | John Woods |
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概述 | Examines truth in fiction from the point of view of a naturalized logic.Dismisses orthodox positions on reference and truth, and the machinery of formal semantics.Advances an account of propositions u |
丛书名称 | Synthese Library |
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描述 | .This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows?.It is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they are.unambiguously .true and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn’t in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it?.Two answers are developed. According to the .no-contradiction thesis., the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the .no-bother thesis., if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational m |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Semantics of fictional discourse; Pretendism; Causal response epistemology; Semantic illusion; Lived rea |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72658-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-10245-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-72658-8Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 |
issn_series | 0166-6991 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2018 |