ABSTRACT
Of great interest to philosophers has been the way that certain statements appear to be true in virtue of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) contains descriptions of protagonist Jay Gatsby’s lavish West Egg mansion; it thus seems appropriate to classify the following as true and false, respectively:
(1) Jay Gatsby lives in a lavish mansion in West Egg. (2) Jay Gatsby lives in a polyurethane yurt near Big Sur.
