Publication Date
2011
Faculty Department
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Document Type
Article
Abstract
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.
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Recommended Citation
“Pretense Theory and the Imported Background,” Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2011)
