Pararealities [[electronic resource] ] : the nature of our fictions and how we know them / / Floyd Merrell
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Merrell Floyd <1937->
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Pararealities [[electronic resource] ] : the nature of our fictions and how we know them / / Floyd Merrell
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, 1983 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 801/.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fictions, Theory of |
| Reality | |
| Knowledge, Theory of | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Intelligible |
| 2.2 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 Fictions | |
| 4.4 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; References | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pararealities |
| ISBN: | 1-283-35943-X |
| 9786613359438 | |
| 90-272-8029-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457177303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; ; v. 12.