IDH 23901
INSTITUTO DE HUMANIDADES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Inference and Logical Consequence in Fiction
Autor/es:
MASSOLO, ALBA
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Workshop; Workshop on Reference and Fiction; 2013
Institución organizadora:
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de SADAF
Resumen:
A fictional story is formed by a number of
sentences. These sentences express the explicit content of a story. However, not
only does a story consist of explicit information but it also consists of
consequences drawn from that explicit content. In this way, the information drawn
is also part of the story. Therefore, as a considerable number of those
consequences are logical, it is possible to increase the content of a fictional
story by making logical inferences. The following is an example of this kind of
inferences:
Guy Montag is a fireman
Firemen burn books
\Guy Montag burns books
As it is widely known, there are many good
reasons to avoid the classical notion of logical consequence in this context.
Then, to make the previous inference valid, it turns out necessary to define a
suitable notion of logical consequence. In order to characterize and justify
such notion of consequence, I will analyze a distinction made by Bernard
Bolzano between two different types of relations: deducibility (derivability)
and grounding. As I will argue, the grounding relation has a number of
properties that seem accurate enough to justify a notion of logical consequence
for fiction.
