<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">It is usually taken for granted that a necessary condition for knowing that P is the truth of P. It may therefore be claimed that if we assume that we gain some kind of knowledge through fiction (let us call it fictional knowledge) of P*, then P* should be true—in at least a certain sense. My hypothesis is that this assumption grounds the different ways adopted by philosophers for attributing truth-conditions to fictional sentences. My claim in this work is that fictional sentences do not have truth-values and truth-conditions, but I want to maintain that we gain some kind of knowledge through fiction: to this aim, I will characterize the objective content of fictional sentences not in terms of truth-conditions (which are usually described by appealing to rules of the language or rules of interpretation of language independent of the actual users), but in dispositional terms and I will define a necessary condition for fictional knowledge accordingly.</abstract>

It is usually taken for granted that a necessary condition for knowing that P is the truth of P. It may therefore be claimed that if we assume that we gain some kind of knowledge through fiction (let us call it fictional knowledge) of P*, then P* should be true—in at least a certain sense. My hypothesis is that this assumption grounds the different ways adopted by philosophers for attributing truth-conditions to fictional sentences. My claim in this work is that fictional sentences do not have truth-values and truth-conditions, but I want to maintain that we gain some kind of knowledge through fiction: to this aim, I will characterize the objective content of fictional sentences not in terms of truth-conditions (which are usually described by appealing to rules of the language or rules of interpretation of language independent of the actual users), but in dispositional terms and I will define a necessary condition for fictional knowledge accordingly.

Fictional Content

“Piero Martinetti” University of Milan

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It is usually taken for granted that a necessary condition for knowing that P is the truth of P. It may therefore be claimed that if we assume that we gain...

Fictional Content

Publié en ligne: 13 mai 2020

Pages: 255 - 269

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0019

Mots clés
Truth in fiction, non-truth-conditional content in fiction, propositions, objectivity, dispositions

© 2020 Elisa Paganini, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Fictional Content

Publié en ligne: 13 mai 2020

Pages: 255 - 269

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0019

Mots clésTruth in fiction, non-truth-conditional content in fiction, propositions, objectivity, dispositions

© 2020 Elisa Paganini, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Truth in fiction, non-truth-conditional content in fiction, propositions, objectivity, dispositions