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Il paradosso della finzione
Paolini Paoletti, Michele
2014
Abstract
The paradox of fiction is a a paradox that has been widely discussed in aesthetics and in ontology of fiction (though to a lesser extent). It manifests a contradiction in our emotional reactions to fictional works. This contradiction is both epistemic and metaphysical. In this paper, I shall give three different formulations of the paradox: two epistemic formulations and a metaphysical one. Secondly, I shall critically examine some solutions. The major solutions are connected with the “pretense-theory”, the “quasi-emotions”, the “suspension” and the “disbelief theory”, the “thought theory”. It will result that the major difficulties for each solution lie on the metaphysical side, namely the one that has been investigated to a lesser extent in order to deal with the paradox of fiction.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Michele Paolini Paoletti, “Il paradosso della finzione”, in "APhEx 9", 2014, pp. 28
Languages
it
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