Universitat de Barcelona
2023-01-23T18:02:28Z
2024-06-01T05:10:07Z
2022-06-01
2023-01-23T18:02:28Z
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
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Accepted version
English
Veritat; Anàlisi del discurs narratiu; Teoria de les ficcions; Truth; Narrative discourse analysis; Theory of fictions
Oxford University Press
Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab066
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2022, vol. 62, num. 2, p. 307-324
https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab066
(c) García-Carpintero, Manuel , 2022
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