Author(s)

Jeffrey Goodman

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Kendall Walton’s pretense theory, like its rivals, says that what’s true in a fiction F depends in part on the importation of background propositions into F. The aim of this paper is to present, explain, and defend a brief yet straightforward argument–one which exploits the specific mechanism by which the pretense theory says propositions are imported into fictions–for the falsity of the pretense theory.

Fiction, Truth in Fiction, Pretense, Make-Believe

Goodman, J. (2011). Pretense Theory and the Imported Background. Open Journal of Philosophy, 1, 22-25. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2011.11004.