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Pretense and fiction-directed thought.
- Source :
- Philosophical Studies; Jun2015, Vol. 172 Issue 6, p1549-1573, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Thought about fictional characters is special, and needs to be distinguished from ordinary world-directed thought. On my interpretation, Kendall Walton and Gareth Evans have tried to show how this serious fiction-directed thought can arise from engagement with a kind of pretending. Many criticisms of their account have focused on the methodological presupposition, that fiction-directed thought is the appropriate explanandum. In the first part of this paper, I defend the methodological claim, and thus the existence of the problem to which pretense is supposed to be a solution. In the second part, I elaborate and defend the pretense theory as a solution to this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FICTIONAL characters
FICTION
PRESUPPOSITION (Logic)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318116
- Volume :
- 172
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Philosophical Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102703955
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0364-2