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Frame, Alex. "Fictions in the Thought of Sir John Salmond." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 30, no. 1 (1999): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v30i1.6021.

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A Lecture delivered for the Stout Centre's "Eminent Victorians" Centennial Series in the Council Chamber, Hunter Building at Victoria University on 31 March 1999. The author pays tribute to the late Sir John Salmond by discussing the role of "fiction" in law and in the thought of Sir John. The author notes the nature of fiction as a formidable force, as it facilitates provisional escape from the tyranny of apparent fact and forget about the suspensory nature of fiction. There are three types of "fictions" in the legal world: legislative fictions, whereby the world is refashioned in accordance

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POPA, Alexandru. "Fiktion´ und Fiktionen. Einige Beobachtungen zu terminologischen und sachlichen Unklarheiten in literaturtheoretischem und -wissenschaftlichem Kontext." Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 14 (63), Special Issue (2022): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2021.63.14.3.2.

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The following article discusses some issues regarding the use of the terms ‘fiction’, ‘fictionality’, ‘fictive’ and ‘fictional’ with regard to fictions and fictional expressions or texts. The main concern of this text is to indicate the fact, that ‘fiction’ and fictions are used and treated with a certain amount of ambiguity. It is the case when literature and literary worlds are discussed both in a general context and in scholarly treatment of these issues. Relevant terminological distinctions exist. Still, their use to name their corresponding referents lacks a certain consequence.

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Matravers, Derek. "Non-Fictions and Narrative Truths." Croatian journal of philosophy 22, no. 65 (2022): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.52685/cjp.22.65.1.

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This paper starts from the fact that the study of narrative in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is almost exclusively the study of fictional narrative. It returns to an earlier debate in which Hayden White argued that “historiography is a form of fiction-making.” Although White’s claims are hyperbolical, the paper argues that he was correct to stress the importance of the claim that fiction and non-fiction use “the same techniques and strategies.” A distinction is drawn between properties of narratives that are simply properties of narratives and properties of narratives that play a role

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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Assertions in Fictions." Grazer Philosophische Studien 96, no. 3 (2019): 445–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09603013.

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The author of this paper contrasts the account he favors for how fictions can convey knowledge with Green’s views on the topic. On the author’s account, fictions can convey knowledge because fictional works make assertions and other acts such as conjectures, suppositions, or acts of putting forward contents for our consideration; and the mechanism through which they do it is that of speech act indirection, of which conversational implicatures are a particular case. There are two potential points of disagreement with Green in this proposal. First, it requires that assertions can be made indirec

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Kelley, Robert T. "A Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike: Aesthetics and Teleology in Interactive Computer Fictional Environments." Science Fiction Studies 20, Part 1 (1993): 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.20.1.052.

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Interactive fictions, particularly computer-simulation games, engage the user as a co-creator of a fictional world. Recognizing that the interactive freedom he or she experiences even in the most complex of interactive fictions is a mirage, the user can become keenly aware of the teleology inherent in all fictional works. At their best, however, these interactive fictions are less like novels and more like children’s games of make-believe in which objects and stories serve as props in an intensely creative world-building environment or as extensions of real life with gamelike qualities. The bu

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Zhang, Richard, and Duri Long. "Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, GROUP (2025): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701184.

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Literary approaches to design fictions, though previously theorized to be diverse in form and content, often fall within narrow stylistic and content boundaries such as speculative abstracts, memos, and studies. By drawing on a rich history of science fiction criticism, we advocate for literary design fictions that diverge from what is commonplace in HCI and design research. We foreground our paper with a discussion of the poetics of science fiction, and their relationship to current design fiction practices. Specifically, we highlight how the poetics of a design fiction can work to familiariz

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Mikkonen, Kai. "Minimal Departure and Fictional Narrative Situations." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 13, no. 2 (2021): 71–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/stw.2021.a925851.

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Abstract: Readers understand fictional worlds at least to some extent by drawing on background knowledge of their own world. Some theories of fiction, however, hold that such realistic expectations, or processes of naturalization, are the default attitude in experiencing fictions. Thus, what Marie-Laure Ryan has called the principle of minimal departure (MD) states that readers understand fictional worlds and their components by drawing on background knowledge of their own world, unless otherwise indicated. This article is a critical examination of the relevance of the principle of MD and a co

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Villegas López, Sonia. "Truth and Wonder in Richard Head’s Geographical Fictions." Sederi, no. 30 (2020): 117–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2020.6.

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In line with the method prescribed by members of the Royal Society for natural history and travel writing, Richard Head explored the limits of verisimilitude associated with geographical discourse in his three fictions The Floating Island (1673), The Western Wonder (1674) and O-Brazile (1675). In them he argues in favor of the existence of the mysterious Brazile island and uses the factual discourse of the travel diarist to present a semi-mythical place whose very notion stretches the limits of believability. In line with recent critical interpretations of late seventeenth-century fiction as d

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Proudfoot, Diane. "Sylvan's Bottle and other Problems." Australasian Journal of Logic 15, no. 2 (2018): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4858.

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   According to Richard Routley, a comprehensive theory of fiction is impossible, since almost anything is in principle imaginable. In my view, Routley is right: for any purported logic of fiction, there will be actual or imaginable fictions that successfully counterexample the logic. Using the example of ‘impossible’ fictions, I test this claim against theories proposed by Routley’s Meinongian contemporaries and also by Routley himself (for what he called ‘esoteric’ works of fiction) and his 21st century heirs. I argue that the phenomenon of impossible fictions challenges ev

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Colleyn, Jean-Paul. "Fiction et fictions en anthropologie." L Homme, no. 175-176 (October 15, 2005): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.1898.

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Colleyn, Jean-Paul. "Fiction et fictions en anthropologie." L'Homme, no. 175-176 (October 15, 2005): 147–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.29528.

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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened

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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened

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Villette, Agnès. "Viral Fictions: Navigating Time in Search of Memorial Markers for the Radio-Toxic Landscape of La Hague." Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 100 (June 1, 2020): 238–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.37522/aaav.100.2021.63.

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   Nuclear events have inscribed the 20th century into a new chemical temporality, that generally escapes our scrutiny due to radioactivity’s invisibility. Radioactive particles keep falling back to earth since nuclear tests peaked during the Cold War, they form an iterative invisible presence that is coated in political invisibility. Through films and fictions, the paper traces haunted images that keep coming back. Two distinct geographies are weaved together, that of West Coast American deserts, where numerous tests were conducted, and that of the nuclear peninsula of La Ha

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Garrido Ardila, Juan Antonio. "Las rutas del «Quijote» por la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII." Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, no. 26 (October 27, 2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17811/cesxviii.26.2016.17-31.

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RESUMENEste artículo sopesa las principales derrotas en las investigaciones en torno a la presencia, recepción e influjo del Quijote en la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII. Se parte aquí de la distinción establecida entre novelas inglesas dieciochescas de temática quijotesca (las denominadas Quixotic fictions) y aquellas cuyas características formales se inspiran en el Quijote (las Cervantean novels). Respecto de las primeras se subraya la escasez deestudios y las muchas posibilidades que estas brindan al estudioso que quiera indagar en el tratamiento satírico de la compleja sociedad que las ins

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Mosselaer, Nele Van de. "How Can We Be Moved to Shoot Zombies? A Paradox of Fictional Emotions and Actions in Interactive Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (2018): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0016.

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Abstract How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina? By asking this question, Colin Radford introduced the paradox of fiction, or the problem that we are often emotionally moved by characters and events which we know don’t really exist (1975). A puzzling element of these emotions that always resurfaced within discussions on the paradox is the fact that, although these emotions feel real to the people who have them, their difference from ›real‹ emotions is that they cannot motivate us to perform any actions. The idea that actions towards fictional particulars are impossible still underlie

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Van De Mosselaer, Nele. "Imaginative Desires and Interactive Fiction: On Wanting to Shoot Fictional Zombies." British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 3 (2019): 241–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayz049.

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Abstract What do players of videogames mean when they say they want to shoot zombies? Surely they know that the zombies are not real, and that they cannot really shoot them, but only control a fictional character who does so. Some philosophers of fiction argue that we need the concept of imaginative desires (or ‘i-desires’) to explain situations in which people feel desires towards fictional characters or desires that motivate pretend actions. Others claim that we can explain these situations without complicating human psychology with a novel mental state. Within their debates, however, these

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Conti, André Nunes. "Fiktion und juristische Begriffsbildung." Rechtsphilosophie 10, no. 3 (2024): 307–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2364-1355-2024-3-307.

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Legal fictions are usually defined as consciously false assumptions. This definition is suitable for distinguishing fictions from presumptions, but it conceals some important nuances about the role of fictions in a legal system. For this reason, this paper proposes an alternative definition of legal fictions as discrepancies between different conceptual systems. In doing so, it makes it possible to focus not primarily on external fictions, which consist in a discrepancy between legal terminology and colloquial language, but rather on internal fictions, which consist in a discrepancy between tw

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Chakravorty, Mrinalini. "The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Difference and Postcolonial Melancholia." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 3 (2013): 542–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.542.

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Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje's haunting novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, probes paradoxes that arise in postcolonial fictional representations of transnational violence. What is conveyed by novels of war and genocide that cast the whole of a decolonial territory as a “deathworld”? The prism of death in Anil's Ghost requires readers of this text to relinquish settled notions of how we as humans understand our finitude and our entanglements with the deaths of others. Postcolonial fictions of violence conjoin historical circumstance with phantasmatic expressions to raise important question

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Fitzpatrick, Noel. "The question of Fiction – nonexistent objects, a possible world response from Paul Ricoeur." Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 17, no. 1 (2016): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2016-0020.

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Abstract The question of fiction is omnipresent within the work of Paul Ricoeur throughout his prolific career. However, Ricoeur raises the questions of fiction in relation to other issues such the symbol, metaphor and narrative. This article sets out to foreground a traditional problem of fiction and logic, which is termed the existence of non-existent objects, in relation to the Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative. Ricoeur’s understanding of fiction takes place within his overall philosophical anthropology where the fictions and histories make up the very nature of identity both personal and co

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Georgescu, Daniela. "Rolul constructelor ficționale în filosofia lui Hans Vaihinger." Revista de filosofie 71, no. 6 (2024): 777–89. https://doi.org/10.59277/rf.2024.71.6.03.

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Man’s aspiration towards the ideal can be found both in science and in phenomenal experience, in the questions “in what way?” or “how?”. From this methodological, scientific or empirical approach, fictions are born, this new type of ideational constructs, which serve as an instrument of the logical function of thinking. The qualitative differentiation of fictions is argued by Vaihinger through the incongruity or contradiction of their content with reality and with themselves. Thus, thinking operates both with semi-fictions, but also with authentic fictions. Another part of the article is devot

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Abramova, Elena V. "Legal fictions as ideological source of law." Law Enforcement Review 3, no. 4 (2020): 24–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24147/2542-1514.2019.3(4).24-29.

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The subject. The article studies legal fictions from the point of view of their correlation with ideological sources of law.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that legal fictions may be described as one of the ideological sources of law.The methodological basis for the study includes analysis and synthesis, interpretation of legal literature.Results, scope of application. Legal fictions are legal provisions enshrined in the text of regulatory legal acts in the form of separate regulatory regulations. They play an important role in lawmaking and in the mechanism of

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Bourlot, Gilles. "Fictions et destins des fictions : enjeux épistémologiques de la fiction chez Freud." Cliniques méditerranéennes 84, no. 2 (2011): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/cm.084.0075.

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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Predelli on Fictional Discourse." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, no. 1 (2021): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab062.

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Abstract John Searle argues that (literary) fictions are constituted by mere pretense—by the simulation of representational activities like assertions, without any further representational aim. They are not the result of sui generis, dedicated speech acts of a specific kind, on a par with assertion. The view had earlier many defenders, and still has some. Stefano Predelli enlists considerations derived from Searle in support of his radical fictionalism. This is the view that a sentence of fictional discourse including a prima facie empty fictional name like “Emma Woodhouse” in fact “is not a s

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Hansom, Paul, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Lars Ole Sauerberg. "Fictional Theories and Theoretical Fictions." Contemporary Literature 34, no. 4 (1993): 797. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208813.

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Solove, Daniel J., and L. H. LaRue. "Fictions about Fictions." Yale Law Journal 105, no. 5 (1996): 1439. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/797184.

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Hayaki, Reina. "Fictions within fictions." Philosophical Studies 146, no. 3 (2008): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-008-9272-7.

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Barikova, Anna. "LEGAL FICTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS." Administrative law and process, no. 4 (27) (2019): 102–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2227-796x.2019.4.09.

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Goal. The paper reveals features of applying administrative procedural legal fictions in order to avoid abuse of the right and evasion of the law when exercising procedural discretion. Methods. For achievement of research purposes, the author uses special legal methods of scientific knowledge: formal-logical, system-functional, formal-logical, comparative-legal. Results. Historiography of the legal fictions use has been dealt with. Essence of fictions has been highlighted in the paper as legal anomalies. The use of legal fictions in the administrative process has been detailed, taking into acc

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Simon, Sherry, and Gilles Bibeau. "Ethnographie et fiction – Fictions de l’ethnographie." Anthropologie et Sociétés 28, no. 3 (2004): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/011280ar.

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Teo, Hsu-Ming. "Historical fiction and fictions of history." Rethinking History 15, no. 2 (2011): 297–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2011.570490.

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Summerley, Rory. "Approaches to Game Fiction Derived from Musicals and Pornography." Arts 7, no. 3 (2018): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts7030044.

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This paper discusses the construction of consistent fictions in games using relevant theory drawn from discussions of musicals and pornography in opposition to media that are traditionally associated with fiction and used to discuss games (film, theatre, literature etc.). Game developer John Carmack’s famous quip that stories in games are like stories in pornography—optional—is the impetus for a discussion of the role and function of fiction in games. This paper aims to kick-start an informed approach to constructing and understanding consistent fictions in games. Case studies from games, musi

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Grishakova, Marina, Remo Gramigna, and Siim Sorokin. "Imaginary scenarios: On the use and misuse of fiction." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5, no. 1 (2019): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2019-0008.

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AbstractThis paper argues that the examination of representational (formal) and semantic (referential) features of fictional and factual narratives would be incomplete without discussing specific pragmatic (communicative, performative, heuristic, and cognitive) functions of fiction – how and why “fictions” are used in literature and arts, but also in scientific, philosophical, and everyday discourses. On the one hand, the pragmatic approach blurs the fictional/ factual divide and identifies similarities in the use of fiction across disciplinary borders. On the other, as we argue, to avoid panf

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Borstner, Bojan, and Tadej Todorović. "Thought Experiments, Fictions, and Irrelevant Details." Croatian journal of philosophy 25, no. 73 (2025): 31–48. https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.25.73.3.

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The article explores the problem of the cognitive value of thought experiments (TEs) and fictions. Specifically, it deals with the claim that fictions have cognitive value in virtue of being (elaborate) thought experiments. First, a short overview of the cognitive value of TEs is presented, followed by the recent findings from experimental philosophy, which cast doubt on the value of TEs. This is followed by an examination and rejection of the claim that fictions are TEs (as presented by Elgin) for two reasons. First, the analogy between scientific and thought experiments and fictions ultimate

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Hanff, William. "Real and Semi-Real – an Architectural Backstory for Flusser’s Dual Scientific Fictions." Revista Memorare 8, no. 1 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/memorare.v1e1202181-92.

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Vilém Flusser’s approaches to epistemology and science fiction are explored in connection with the fictionalism of Hans Vaihinger and other late 19th and early 20th century philosophies, as well as using an architectural metaphor of scaffolding and blueprints. From his 1980 essay “Science Fiction” Flusser’s two approaches to science fictions are labeled as 1) a ‘falsification strategy’ and 2) an ‘epistemology of improbability.’ These are further explored as metaphors for architecture and building based on ideas from his “Wittgenstein’s Architecture” in The Shape of Things: a Philosophy of Desi

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Hanff, William. "Real and Semi-Real – an Architectural Backstory for Flusser’s Dual Scientific Fictions." Revista Memorare 8, no. 1 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/memorare.v8e1202181-92.

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Vilém Flusser’s approaches to epistemology and science fiction are explored in connection with the fictionalism of Hans Vaihinger and other late 19th and early 20th century philosophies, as well as using an architectural metaphor of scaffolding and blueprints. From his 1980 essay “Science Fiction” Flusser’s two approaches to science fictions are labeled as 1) a ‘falsification strategy’ and 2) an ‘epistemology of improbability.’ These are further explored as metaphors for architecture and building based on ideas from his “Wittgenstein’s Architecture” in The Shape of Things: a Philosophy of Desi

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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse?" Disputatio 11, no. 54 (2019): 143–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0015.

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Abstract Singular terms used in fictions for fictional characters raise well-known philosophical issues, explored in depth in the literature. But philosophers typically assume that names already in use to refer to “moderatesized specimens of dry goods” cause no special problem when occurring in fictions, behaving there as they ordinarily do in straightforward assertions. In this paper I continue a debate with Stacie Friend, arguing against this for the exceptionalist view that names of real entities in fictional discourse don’t work there as they do in simple-sentence assertions, but rather as

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Franzén, Nils. "A Sensibilist Explanation of Imaginative Resistance." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51, no. 3 (2021): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.10.

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AbstractThis article discusses why it is the case that we refuse to accept strange evaluative claims as being true in fictions, even though we are happy to go along with other types of absurdities in such contexts. For instance, we would refuse to accept the following statement as true, even in the context of a fiction: (i) In killing her baby, Giselda did the right thing; after all, it was a girl.This article offers a sensibilist diagnosis of this puzzle, inspired by an observation first made by David Hume. According to sensibilism, the way we feel about things settles their evaluative proper

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Аnchishina, E. A. "THE ROLE OF LEGAL FICTIONS IN MODERN LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Economics and Law 30, no. 5 (2020): 697–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9593-2020-30-5-697-705.

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This article is devoted to defining the role of legal fictions in modern law enforcement practice. To do this, the author reveals the content of this category, paying attention to the absence of the need to consider fiction as something false and contrary to objective reality. Further, the author defines the meaning of legal fictions, conducting a detailed analysis of their main functions on the example of the civil legislation of the Russian Federation and the corresponding law enforcement practice. At the same time, its practical aspect is mainly studied. The main attention is paid to the pr

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Stopel, Bartosz. "Engaging Readers Cognitively and Affectively in Flash Fiction." Transfer. Reception Studies 9 (November 30, 2024): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.16926/trs.2024.09.13.

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This article sets out to explore flash fiction, understood as very short forms of prose narrative and taking it to be a mode of writing that only properly developed in recent decades, although not without prominent antecedents going back through centuries of literary history. It addresses the issues of defining flash fiction, as well as its formal features, outlining their typical structures as well as speculating on how flash fiction may engage readers in its own characteristic ways. I argue that while retaining the basics of narrative requirements, such as representing events and being able

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Bannet, Eve Tavor. "Pluralist Theory-Fictions and Fictional Politics." Philosophy and Literature 13, no. 1 (1989): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.1989.0089.

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Savage, Paul, Joep P. Cornelissen, and Henrika Franck. "Fiction and Organization Studies." Organization Studies 39, no. 7 (2017): 975–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617709309.

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The topic of fiction is in itself not new to the domain of organization studies. However, prior research has often separated fiction from the reality of organizations and used fiction metaphorically or as a figurative source to describe and interpret organizations. In this article, we go beyond the classic use of fiction, and suggest that fiction should be a central concern in organization studies. We draw on the philosophy of fiction to offer an alternative account of the nature of fiction and its basic operation. We specifically import Searle’s work on speech acts, Walton’s pretense theory,

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Prasad, Amar Nath. "The Non-fictions of V.S. Naipaul: A Critical Exploration." Creative Saplings 1, no. 8 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.8.168.

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V. S. Naipaul is an eminent literary figure in the field of modern fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue writing in English literature. He earned a number of literary awards and accolades, including the covetous Nobel Prize and Booker Prize. His non-fiction e.g., An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Loss of El Dorado, India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief are a realistic portrayal of the various types of religion, culture, customs, and people of India. As an author, the main purpose of V. S. Naipaul is to deliver the truth; because poets are the unacknowledged legis

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Quinn, Michael. "Fuller on legal fictions: a Benthamic perspective." International Journal of Law in Context 9, no. 4 (2013): 466–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552313000256.

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AbstractThis paper attempts first to explain Bentham's distinction between a fiction and the name of a fictitious entity, and to relate that distinction to his rationale for the critique of legal fictions. A second goal of the paper is to investigate the tensions involved in Bentham's ontology and epistemology, and more specifically the tension between the objectivist and subjectivist Bentham. It is argued that Bentham's objections to legal fictions were traceable to their use in deceptive or fallacious argument, whilst his logic provided a means of rehabilitating the use of the names of those

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Wilhelms, Lina. "“Esa zona indeterminada donde se cruzan la ficción y la verdad": Ficciones, realidades y la lectura como agentes críticos en El camino de Ida de Ricardo Piglia." Philologica Canariensia, no. 30 (2024) (June 22, 2024): 569–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2024.691.

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This article analyses Ricardo Piglia's last novel, El camino de Ida (2013), which is influenced by the emphatic concept of fiction and the epistemological potential of literature, postulated by its author. The article discusses how the author aims to develop through his crime fiction a capacity for critical reading allowing us to recognise and read the state and economic fictions that, according to Piglia, fill reality. It will be shown how Piglia deliberately plays with fictional and factual elements at various levels of the complex narrative to provoke a critical and even suspicious attitude

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Valsiner, Jaan. "Between fiction and reality: Transforming the semiotic object." Sign Systems Studies 37, no. 1/2 (2009): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2009.37.1-2.05.

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(Commentary on Umberto Eco’s article On the ontology of fictional characters: A semiotic approach in the present issue.)The contrast between real and fictional characters in our thinking needs further elaboration. In this commentary on Eco’s look at the ontology of the semiotic object, I suggest that human semiotic construction entails constant modulation of the relationship between the states of the real and fictional characters in irreversible time. Literary characters are examples of crystallized fictions which function as semiotic anchors in the fluid construction — by the readers — of the

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Joyce, Michael. "Liquid fictions: “between electronic and paper fiction”." Revue Française d Etudes Américaines 128, no. 2 (2011): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfea.128.0015.

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Blistène, Pauline. "Fictions du secret, secrets de la fiction." Inflexions N° 47, no. 2 (2021): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/infle.047.0133.

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Rohdie, Sam. "National fiction: A review of “National Fictions”." Continuum 1, no. 1 (1988): 156–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304318809359327.

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Anne-Braun, Alexis, and Alexandre Declos. "Interactivité de la fiction, fictions de l’interactivité." Cahiers de philosophie de l’Université de Caen, no. 60 (November 17, 2023): 115–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cpuc.2146.

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Egerton, Karl. "Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, no. 1 (2021): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab058.

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Abstract Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games—the role of fictional reliefs and reality checks in shaping aesthetic engagement—before arguing that from this a partial analogy can be developed stemming from a feature that distinguishes most games from most traditional fictions: the presence of rules. The relation between rules and fiction in games has heretofore been acknowledged but n

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