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TRUTH IN FICTION. RETHINKING ITS LOGIC
Título:
TRUTH IN FICTION. RETHINKING ITS LOGIC
Subtítulo:
Autor:
WOODS, J
Editorial:
SPRINGER VERLAG
Año de edición:
2018
ISBN:
978-3-319-72657-1
Páginas:
239
109,00 €

 

Sinopsis

Examines truth in fiction from the point of view of a naturalized logic
Dismisses orthodox positions on reference and truth, and the machinery of formal semantics
Advances an account of propositions unambiguously true and false together that don't violate the Law of Non-Contradiction
Also shows that if the Law were violated, it would not lead to cognitive distabilization



This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows?

It is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they areunambiguously true and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn't in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it?

Two answers are developed. According to the no-contradiction thesis, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the no-bother thesis, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction.

The naturalized logic of Truth in Fiction jettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.