LEADER 05086nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910956941403321 005 20240514061445.0 010 $a1-283-35943-X 010 $a9786613359438 010 $a90-272-8029-0 024 7 $a10.1075/pumrl.12 035 $a(CKB)2550000000072956 035 $a(EBL)805819 035 $a(OCoLC)769342219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000639522 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11418704 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639522 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10604544 035 $a(PQKB)11194419 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC805819 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL805819 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10517171 035 $a(DE-B1597)719129 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027280299 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000072956 100 $a19830420d1983 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPararealities $ethe nature of our fictions and how we know them /$fFloyd Merrell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cBenjamins$d1983 215 $a1 online resource (182 pages) 225 1 $aPurdue University monographs in Romance languages,$x0165-8743 ;$vv. 12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a90-272-1722-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPARAREALITIES: 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 Intelligible 327 $a2.2 Conception/Perception-Imagination of Fictions Entails a Fictional Operator 2.3 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. 327 $a3.2 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 Fictions 327 $a4.4 The Domain of Imaginary Worlds: Jungle or Labyrinth 4.5 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; References 330 $aThe objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In Chapter One, I put forth four "postulates" in the form of though experiments. in Chapter Two I turn attention to make-believe, imaginary, and dream worlds, and how they can be conceived and perceived only with respect to the/a "real world." Chapter Three includes a discussion of the affinities and differences between one's tacit knowledge of certain aspects of the number system in arithmetic (an ordered series) and the range of all possible fictional entities (an unordered network). In Chapter Four I establish more precisely the relations between one's "real world" and one's fictional worlds in light of the conclusions from Chapter Three. And, in Chapter Five, I attempt to construct a formal model with which to account for the construction of all possible fictional sentences. 410 0$aPurdue University monographs in Romance languages ;$v12. 606 $aFictions, Theory of 606 $aReality 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 615 0$aFictions, Theory of. 615 0$aReality. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 676 $a801/.9 700 $aMerrell$b Floyd$f1937-$0457596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956941403321 996 $aPararealities$94375158 997 $aUNINA