ABSTRACT
There is at least something surprising about the fact that fiction, despite its detachment from the truth, is able to teach us all sorts of things about the world in which we live. In this chapter, Sam explores the various ways in which Fiction enables us to learn, and the various sorts of facts to which we are introduced by engaging with fiction. Sam also discusses (and hopes to dismiss) the claim of the logical positivists, according to which fiction doesn’t actually teach us anything substantive at all.
