Open AccessFictionality and Imagination, Revisited
Author(s) -
WALTERS LEE
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of aesthetics and art criticism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1540-6245
pISSN - 0021-8529
DOI - 10.1111/jaac.12341
Subject(s) - counterexample , philosophy , epistemology , literature , art , mathematics , discrete mathematics
I present and discuss a counterexample to Kendall Walton's necessary condition for fictionality that arises from considering serial fictions. I argue that although Walton has not in fact provided a necessary condition for fictionality, a more complex version of Walton's condition is immune from the counterexample.
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