Fictionalism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions countable, uncountable
"But it seems to me that modal fictionalism is also incredible: normally we do not think that there are countless theories and stories besides the ones we will ever tell, much less that they are infinitely complex and infinitely long and so that it would be humanly impossible to tell them."
Example
More examples"But it seems to me that modal fictionalism is also incredible: normally we do not think that there are countless theories and stories besides the ones we will ever tell, much less that they are infinitely complex and infinitely long and so that it would be humanly impossible to tell them."
Etymology
From fictional + -ism.
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