Fictional worlds

An Advisory from the Interim Government

An Advisory from the Interim Government

  If you’ve been watching television or reading the newspapers lately and feeling increasingly helpless and ill-defined, you’re certainly not...

Valquez, Reviewed in a Hotel

Valquez, Reviewed in a Hotel

‘And Valquez?’ ‘Ah valquez. Suberbly conceived, and, of course utterly laughable in apprehension.’ ‘Absolutely. He is pathos epitomised. I mean...

The Myth of State and Heterodox Narratives

The Myth of State and Heterodox Narratives

            “Extending the Blessings of Civilization to our Brother who Sits in Darkness has been...

note on Aristotle and the Organon

note on Aristotle and the Organon

          ‘The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Borges, On Henley’s translattion of Beckford’s Vathek,...

The kind of thing meanings are (1)

The kind of thing meanings are (1)

For the purposes of a model for fictionality propositions, meanings and concepts are deployed as abstract, dimensionless, and absolute objects....

two paragraphs from chapter on anticipated objections

two paragraphs from chapter on anticipated objections

Taking language across the divide, from a natural, organic system that functions, however inexplicably, at worlds, to a formal logical...

A definition for fiction

A definition for fiction

A bare bones definition for fiction: 1. A fiction is a text of a (centred) world that references some other...