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Fiction: a counterfactual assumption or history. In philosophy, it is the question how a truth value can be attributed to fictional statements. See also idealization, as if, truth, facts, counterfactuals, theories, theoretical entities, existence, ontology.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Fictions - Dictionary of Arguments

I 138
Literature/Fiction/Gadamer: For the poet, free invention is always only one side of a mediocrity bound by given validity. He does not freely invent his fable, no matter how much he imagines it. Rather, to this day something remains of the old foundation of the mimesis theory.
>Mimesis
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The free invention of the poet is the representation of a common truth which also binds the poet. Other forms of art are not different, especially the fine arts. The aesthetic myth of the freelance imagination, which transforms experience into poetry, and the cult of the genius that belongs to it, only attest that in the 19th century the mythical-historical traditional good is no longer a self-evident possession.
But even then the aesthetic myth of imagination and ingenious invention represents an exaggeration that cannot withstand what is real. Still, the choice of material and the design of the chosen material does not originate from a free will of the artist and is not merely an expression of his inwardness. Rather, the artist appeals to prepared minds and chooses for it what promises him effect. He himself is in the same tradition as the audience he means and collects. In this sense, it is true that he is not an individual, a thinking consciousness that needs to know explicitly what he is doing and what his work says. It is never just a strange world of magic, intoxication, dream, to which the player, creator or spectator is enraptured, but it is still his own world, to which he is actually transferred by recognizing himself deeper within it. There remains a continuity of meaning that unites the work of art with the world of existence and from which even the alienated consciousness of an educational society never completely detaches itself.
>Literature, >Education, >Second Nature, >Cultural Tradition, >Cultural Values, >Culture,
>Society.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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