Ființele ficționale: ce sunt și la ce folosesc
Fictional beings: What they are and what they are for
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https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v7i2.25958Keywords:
fictional entity, fictional realism / antirealism, make-believe , (fictional) truthAbstract
My paper problematizes the (non)existence of the fictional beings, addressing a series of important theoretical questions and comparing some relevant (realist / antirealist) answers archived by the modern and contemporary conceptual history. I have examined contrastive philosophical perspectives that define the ontological condition of fictional beings, in an attempt to represent the specific difference of these imaginative constructs and their experiential roles. The argumentative stake of my concise research is to prove that, in the coordinates of the imaginative worlds, fictional beings, their behavior, language, emotions, intentions, help us „read” and interpret real life - they are cognitive tools of exceptional value.
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