{"id":8689,"date":"2013-06-25T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/fiction\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:49:35","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A fictional character can be believed by some to be real, known by others to be fictional, and an object of uncertainty to still others.&#0160; Some young children believe Santa Claus to be real;&#0160; adults know him to be purely fictional; and some children are unsure whether he is real or fictional.&#0160; It seems to follow that such sentences as &#39;Santa Claus is jolly&#39; need not be understood as prefixed by a story operator to be understood. A child who asserts &#39;Santa Claus is jolly&#39;&#0160;needn&#39;t be asserting &#39;In the Santa Claus legend, Santa Claus is jolly.&#39;&#0160; For the child might be unsure whether S. C. is real or fictional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Does this reflection give aid and comfort to Meinongians?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fictional character can be believed by some to be real, known by others to be fictional, and an object of uncertainty to still others.&#0160; Some young children believe Santa Claus to be real;&#0160; adults know him to be purely fictional; and some children are unsure whether he is real or fictional.&#0160; It seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-fictionalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}