Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1):46-57 (2015)
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This paper argues: (1) All knowledge from fiction is from imagination (2) All knowledge from imagination is modal knowledge (3) So, all knowledge from fiction is modal knowledge Moreover, some knowledge is from fiction, so (1)-(3) are non-vacuously true.

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Studies in the way of words.Herbert Paul Grice - 1989 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 42 (3):341-344.
The Nature of Fiction.Gregory Currie - 1990 - Cambridge University Press.

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