ABSTRACT
Whatever is not explicitly fictionally true in Minimum, the text of which is below, is fictionally true in Maximum. Notice that telling Maximum requires people to first tell an empty fiction, Minimum. By pointing to an empty fiction, one can articulate what a universal fiction must be like: the perfect opposite of the empty fiction. Generally speaking, the possibility of empty and universal fictions is widely accepted. It makes intuitive sense, after all—people tend to accept that authors can write whatever stories they like, so the only bar to writing such stories is going to be an author’s imagination. Nevertheless, several philosophers have questioned whether the strategies offered for generating universal fictions are adequate. Some, for instance, have argued that empty and universal fictions are utterly trivial—empty fictions because they literally have no content, and universal fictions because they have all content, and so cannot say anything in particular.
