The Logic of Fiction and the ‘Sayso’ Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme Hunter, Graeme K Hunter (0000-0001-8642-4266, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 344-366 |
| Publication date | 1978-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300024367 |
| OpenAlex | W2090807727 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
It would no doubt conform to most people's unschooled intuition to call 1. Hamlet was a Danish prince. true, and 2. Hamlet was a Spanish peasant. false. Yet most philosophers who have considered the question have given us reason to believe that our intuitions could lead us in such cases into (at worst) contradiction or (at best) deviant logic
Art · Contradiction · Danish · Epistemology · HAMLET (protein complex) · Intuition · Linguistics · Literature · Peasant · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Highly cited | No |
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