He pointed out that skepticism implies a doubting; but in his "as if " philosophy there is nothing dubious about patently false fictions that, unlike ordinary hypotheses, are not subject to verification.
And the novel is constructed in such a way as to excite that desire in us for a real Professor Pnin, a "true fiction" with which to oppose the false fictions of the overbearing and sinister narrator.
Of the two types of objects, some are ultimately real while others are only conventional real, and some are not even conventionally real, they are just false, or fictions.
A fragment posthumously published as An Unfinished Novel in 1958 (but written 1887 88) was his final false start in fiction.
I welcome the time when relevance trumps the blind quest for recognition, when facts triumph against the false comfort of fiction.
The blurring of the line between true and false, fact and fiction, responsible provocation and shameless exploitation is a legitimate concern for anyone who seriously believes democracy requires good journalism to function.
The Kremlin will now mount a barrage of obfuscation, scorn, moral equivalence, crackpot theories, false facts and fictions.
That allegation was "totally false, it's a fiction of Mediapart," she reportedly said.
In a Guardian interview, he said: "All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth.
Several former aides to Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, denounced a coming HBO movie about the 2008 campaign on Wednesday, calling it a "fiction," a "false narrative" and "sick".
