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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/192475| Title: | Truth in Fiction Reprised |
| Author: | García-Carpintero, Manuel |
| Keywords: | Veritat Anàlisi del discurs narratiu Teoria de les ficcions Truth Narrative discourse analysis Theory of fictions |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2022 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Abstract: | The paper surveys recent appraisals of David Lewis's seminal paper on truth in fiction. It examines variations on standard criticisms of Lewis's account aiming to show that, if developed as Lewis suggests in his 1983 Postscript A, his proposals on the topic are - as Hanley puts it - as good as it gets. Thus elaborated, Lewis's account can resist the objections, and it offers a better picture of fictional discourse than recent resurrections of other classic works of the 1970s, by Kripke, van Inwagen, and Searle. The turn that Lewis suggests and the paper recommends draws on the remaining outstanding contribution from that time, Walton's |
| Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab066 |
| It is part of: | British Journal of Aesthetics, 2022, vol. 62, num. 2, p. 307-324 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/192475 |
| Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab066 |
| ISSN: | 0007-0904 |
| Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filosofia) |
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