For homework, they compose fictional statements in which key figures publicly acknowledge their wrongful actions.
4. Write fictional statements in which key figures in the scandal publicly acknowledge wrongdoing.
Let me set the record straight with Larry Butler's fictional statements on "who made CBGB cool".
"Far from a 'non-fiction,'trueue story,' but rather, nothing more than a deliberate and calculated assemblage of falsehoods constituting a character assassination composed of a plethora unsubstantiated, untrue, inaccurate, unbalanced, fictional statements concocted for lucre to falsely and intentionally insinuate that my client is a despicable wife murderer".
(For such a move, see Brock (2002), Phillips (2000).) The appeal to intensional "in the fiction" operators is a well-known strategy for dealing with the apparent truth of statements like (6), and because it is available to Russell this may seem like good news for Russell's antirealism, especially given the way the strategy might be extended to external meta-fictional statements like (4) and (5).
Last March, Judge Burton R. Lifland of Federal Bankruptcy Court found that Mr. Picard was correct to measure the claims of victims as the difference between the cash put in and the cash taken out of their accounts over the years, regardless of the final balance on the fictional account statements concocted by Mr. Madoff.
Although Benchley was known for misleading and fictional autobiographical statements about himself (at one point asserting that he wrote A Tale of Two Cities before being buried at Westminster Abbey), he actually was the great-grandchild of the founder of Benchley, Texas, Henry Wetherby Benchley, who was jailed for his help with the Underground Railroad.
If your work is fictional, include this statement also: "This is a work of fiction.
The advocates for the so-called net winners, those who retrieved their initial investment before the scheme collapsed, argued that both the law that created the corporation and subsequent court decisions clearly require the trustee to define customer losses as the balance on the final account statements, even though the statements reflect fictional profits from transactions Mr. Madoff never made.
But it ends with a subtle call to action, in the form of a closing statement from the fictional authors of the novel's fictional government report: Now that they have completed their task, the commissioners write of themselves, they return to their lives as private citizens who each possess one vote.
