Truth, Relativism, and Serial Fiction

British Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2):165-179 (2013)
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This paper presents a novel explanandum for a theory of fictional truth. I explore a range of theoretical treatments of the data, and argue that it motivates the adoption of a distinctive style of relativism about truth-in-fiction

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Andrew McGonigal
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