{"product_id":"truth-in-fiction-rethinking-its-logic-hardcover","title":"Truth in Fiction: Rethinking Its Logic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Woods\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they are\u003ci\u003eunambiguously \u003c\/i\u003etrue and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn't in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo answers are developed. According to the \u003ci\u003eno-contradiction thesis\u003c\/i\u003e, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the \u003ci\u003eno-bother thesis\u003c\/i\u003e, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe naturalized logic of \u003ci\u003eTruth in Fiction \u003c\/i\u003ejettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they are \u003ci\u003eunambiguously \u003c\/i\u003etrue and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn't in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo answers are developed. According to the \u003ci\u003eno-contradiction thesis\u003c\/i\u003e, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the \u003ci\u003eno-bother thesis\u003c\/i\u003e, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe naturalized logic of \u003ci\u003eTruth in Fiction \u003c\/i\u003ejettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe UBC Honorary Professor of Logic and Director of The Abductive Systems Group. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(1974), \u003ci\u003eFallacies: Selected Papers 1972-1982\u003c\/i\u003e (with Douglas Walton in 1989). Author of \u003ci\u003eParadox and Paraconsistency \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) and, with Dov Gabbay, of \u003ci\u003eAgenda Relevance \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) and \u003ci\u003eThe Reach of Abduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). Author of the \u003ci\u003eDeath of Argument \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Earlier Logic \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), \u003ci\u003eErrors of Reasoning: Naturalizing the Logic of Inference \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) and \u003ci\u003eIs Legal Reasoning Irrational? An Introduction to the Epistemology of Law \u003c\/i\u003e(2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 239\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45301667135567,"sku":"9783319726571","price":185.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/p0Hgsv-rc69783319726571.webp?v=1779692069","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/truth-in-fiction-rethinking-its-logic-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}