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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"truth in fiction"”.
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Truth in Fiction
According to literary tradition and genre classification, fiction has often been regarded as writing that lacks a foundation of truth. However, this does not necessarily mean that fiction contains no elements of truth. In this thesis, Timothy Baker argues that fiction contains traces of truth - …
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Truth in (Impossible) Fictions
I propose a new account of truth in fiction that better handles truth in impossible fictions than the standard Lewisean account. Lewis' solution makes use of possible worlds to capture truths unstated but implied by the fiction. In order to improve upon this account I categorize a number of …
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Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality
This thesis contains five chapters on our imaginative engagement with fiction, videogames, and virtual reality. Relatively recent forms of fictional media, such as videogames and virtual reality, offer opportunities to inhabit different roles and access alternative social spaces, but they can also …
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REALISM ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE FICTIONS
In this paper, I argue for the thesis that some impossible propositions are true-in-fiction, and I suggest that we ought to take the datum that we seem to engage with non-vacuous impossible contents, seriously. I discuss a trilemma presented by Derek Matravers that highlights some tensions between …
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Temporality, authorial intentions, and truth in video game fiction
This thesis examines the claim that video games differ fundamentally from other media in terms of fictional truth. Fictional truth has been treated extensively in the field of philosophy of fiction, primarily in relation to literature and, to a certain extent, film, but video games have been far …