Truth in fiction

Iv. Truth in Fiction

"IA7E can truly say that Sherlock Holmes lived * * in Baker Street, and that he liked to show off his mental powers. We cannot truly say that he was a devoted family man, or that he worked in close cooperation with the police. It would be nice if we could take such descrip? tions of fictional characters at their face value, ascribing to them the same subject-predicate form as parallel descripti...

Mathematics : Truth and Fiction ?

Mark Balaguer's project in this book is extremely ambitious; he sets out to defend both platonism and fictionalism about mathematical entities. Moreover, Balaguer argues that at the end of the day, platonism and fictionalism are on an equal footing. Not content to leave the matter there, however, he advances the anti-metaphysical conclusion that there is no fact of the matter about the existenc...

A Pragmatic Framework for Truth in Fiction

According to R. Stalnaker, context plays a role in determining the proposition expressed by a sentence by providing the domain of possible worlds that propositions distinguish between: a sentence expresses a proposition by selecting a subset of the set of possible situations given by the context. This is also true for embedded sentences, but these sentences express propositions by selecting sub...

Translation Memories guarantee consistency: Truth or fiction?

Translation Memory (TM) is a key technology in the translation industry, its success based on several assumptions: that it saves time, provides cost savings, and enhances consistency. Our research tests the assumption of consistency in TMs. We examine English/German and English/Japanese TM data from two commercial companies with a view to measuring the levels of consistency (or inconsistency) b...

Hardware, Software, Humans: Truth, Fiction and Abstraction