03983nam 2200637 a 450 991045717730332120200520144314.01-283-35943-X978661335943890-272-8029-0(CKB)2550000000072956(EBL)805819(OCoLC)769342219(SSID)ssj0000639522(PQKBManifestationID)11418704(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639522(PQKBWorkID)10604544(PQKB)11194419(MiAaPQ)EBC805819(Au-PeEL)EBL805819(CaPaEBR)ebr10517171(EXLCZ)99255000000007295619830420d1983 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPararealities[electronic resource] the nature of our fictions and how we know them /Floyd MerrellAmsterdam ;Philadelphia Benjamins19831 online resource (182 p.)Purdue University monographs in Romance languages,0165-8743 ;v. 12Description based upon print version of record.90-272-1722-X Includes bibliographical references.PARAREALITIES: THE NATURE OF OUR FICTIONS AND HOW WE KNOW THEM; Editorial page; Title page; Table of contents; Foreword; Chapter One; 1.1 POSTULATE I: The Initial Cut in the Flux of Experience Results in an Elemental Negation Whereby That which Is Is Contrasted with That which It Is Not.; 1.2 POSTULATE II: Negation Is Possible Only with Respect to Something.; Chapter Two; 2.0 THEOREM I: Knowing What a Fiction Is Entails Tacit Knowledge of What It Is Not.; 2.1 How the Range of All Possible Fictions Can Be Made Intelligible2.2 Conception/Perception-Imagination of Fictions Entails a Fictional Operator2.3 To Conceive/Perceive-Imagine a Fiction Is to Oscillate between What the ""Real World"" Is and What It Is Not.; 2.4 Fictional Responses Vary with Respect to the Type of Fictional Constructs.; 2.5 On the Nature of the Barrier between Fictions and the ""Real World""; 2.6 Fictional Worlds versus Dream Worlds; Chapter Three; 3.0 THEOREM II: Knowing What a Fiction Is Entails Knowing Part of the Intrinsic Background of Possibilities.; 3.1 Foundations for a Model of the Intrinsic Background.3.2 The Relationship between Language, Images, and Fictions with Respect to the Intrinsic Background.3.3 The Intrinsic Background as an Unlimited Set of Possibilities; 3.4 On the Interface between the Intrinsic Background and the ""Real World.""; 3.5 A Postulated Common Base for Mathematics, Scientific Fictions, and Natural Language Fictions.; Chapter Four; 4.0 THEOREM III: Knowing a Fiction Entails an Initial Split between Knower and Known.; 4.1 Preliminaries; 4.2 The Many Worlds of Fictions; 4.3 The Schizophrenic Self and Its Self-Consuming Fictions4.4 The Domain of Imaginary Worlds: Jungle or Labyrinth4.5 Continuity versus Discontinuity; 4.6 The Potential for Imaginary Worlds; 4.7 The Upper Bounds o f Imaginary Worlds; Chapter Five; 5.0 THEOREM IV: Knowing a Fiction Begins at the Limits of the/a ""Real World.""; 5.1 Toward a Formal Model of the Upper Bounds Representing the Range of All Possible Fictional Sentences.; Epilogue: Some Speculation Beyond; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Notes; ReferencesPurdue University monographs in Romance languages ;v. 12.Fictions, Theory ofRealityKnowledge, Theory ofElectronic books.Fictions, Theory of.Reality.Knowledge, Theory of.801/.9Merrell Floyd1937-457596MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457177303321Pararealities2281561UNINA