Pararealities
Floyd. Merrell
Bok Engelsk 1983 · Electronic books.
| Annen tittel | |
|---|---|
| Utgitt | Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1983.
|
| Omfang | 1 online resource (182 p.)
|
| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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
|
| Emner | |
| Sjanger | |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 902721722X
|
