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A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2003)

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An algebraic variant of multi-context logic is considered as an alternative to existing logical accounts of fictional discourse. An associative and idempotent operator on reified fictions supercedes Woods’ olim modality. Soundness and completeness results are obtained for certain inter-fictional deductive rules relative to semantical conditions which respect the ‘authorial say-so’ criterion of fictional truth.

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  1. Agder University College, Norway

    Rolf Nossum

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  1. INRIA Lorraine, 615, rue du Jardin Botanique, 54602, Villers les Nancy Cedex, France

    Patrick Blackburn

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Chiara Ghidini

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 5752 Neville Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5752, USA

    Roy M. Turner

  4. Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, 38050, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Fausto Giunchiglia

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Nossum, R. (2003). A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction. In: Blackburn, P., Ghidini, C., Turner, R.M., Giunchiglia, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44958-2_19

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