ABSTRACT

When reading a work of fiction, we take certain things to be true, for the sake of the story, and certain things to be false, whether or not they’re true or false in the actual world, beyond the story. How do we know which claims to treat as true, and which to treat as false? And what makes it the case, if anything, that some things really are true, relative to a fiction, and that some things are false? In this chapter, Sam discusses these questions.