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Truth in Fiction - Rethinking its Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Truth in Fiction - Rethinking its Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Synthese Library, 391
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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 areunambiguously 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 management of inconsistency would explain
why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their
embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of
fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or
four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken
impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of
fiction. The naturalized logic of Truth in Fiction jettisons some
of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary
philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and
cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them.
Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem
with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is
data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect
collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and
cognition.
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