Truth in Fiction Rethinking its Logic /

• Main Author: Woods, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 391
• Subjects: Language and languages-Philosophy.; Fiction.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Logic.; Philosophy of Language.; Language and Literature.; Personality and Social Psychology.

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? Wha...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Misconception and Pretence
• 2. A Research Programme for Fiction
• 3. What Readers Know
• 4. Truth-Making
• 5. Sherlock
• 6. Models and Formal Representations
• 7. "Sherlock"
• 8. Salty Tears and Racing Hearts
• 9. Other Things Sherlock Isn't
• 10. Putting Inconsistency to Rest.