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Make-Believe Spelunking

open access: yesSpectrum, 2021
To what extent, and in what ways, is it possible for works of fiction to influence their readers’ ethical development? In this essay, I explore different answers to this descriptive question in philosophy and literary studies. I dub a view shared by Iris
Jonah Dunch
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The Meanings of Fictional Names [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F, 2021
According to Millianism, the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent. According to anti-realism about fictional entities, there are no such entities.
Fiora Salis
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Playing Make-Believe with #homemadeDisney Pandemic Ride Videos

open access: yesEludamos, 2021
In response to the closing of the Walt Disney theme parks at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fans of Disneyland and Walt Disney World produced videos re-creating their favorite rides and attractions for a viral social media trend dubbed ...
Bobby Schweizer
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“Far finta”, raffigurare, narrare: uno sguardo su Mimesi come far finta di Kendall Lewis Walton

open access: yesAisthesis, 2015
Il saggio descrive e analizza la teoria della rappresentazionalità presentata da Kendall Walton in Mimesi come far finta. Le rappresentazioni sono supporti atti a suscitare un far finta che si esplica come un immaginare proposizionale: ecco la tesi dell ...
Chiara Bisignano
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Fictionalism about Chatbots

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023
According to widely accepted views in metasemantics, the outputs of chatbots and other artificial text generators should be meaningless. They aren’t produced with communicative intentions and the systems producing them are not following linguistic ...
Fintan Mallory
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Simulation-based education: deceiving learners with good intent

open access: yesAdvances in Simulation, 2022
The level of performance of every clinician and of the overall multiprofessional team relies on the skills and expertise they have individually and collectively acquired through education, training, self-directed learning, and reflection.
Guillaume Alinier, Denis Oriot
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Fictionalism of Anticipation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
A promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence.
Vidunas, Raimundas
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Unconventional Narrative Structure and The Problem of Latency Phase in Peter Pan Novel

open access: yesBuletin Al-Turas, 2022
Purpose This research aimed to explain the human’s latency phase through child characters in Peter Pan novel and its relation to the novel unconventional narrative structure.   Method The research was qualitative using a descriptive case design.
Elve Oktafiyani, Diva Salsabila Anindita
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Designing as playing games of make-believe

open access: yesDesign Science, 2020
Designing complex products involves working with uncertainties as the product, the requirements and the environment in which it is used co-evolve, and designers and external stakeholders make decisions that affect the evolving design.
Michael Poznic   +3 more
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Models as make-believe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
publication-status: PublishedOriginal article published in R. Frigg & M. Hunter (Eds.), Beyond Mimesis and Convention, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (pp. 71-96).
Toon, Adam
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