Sentence examples for fictional truth from inspiring English sources

Maybe the fictional truth is close enough".

But is "historical truth" truer than fictional truth?

'The question about fictional truth and journalistic truth is quite simple for me but also very complex,' he told me.

But fictional truth is different; it has less to do with whether something is factually true than whether it is true to the life created within the fiction.

But they are thoughtless in the sense that they abandon their independence, their capacity to think for themselves, and instead commit themselves absolutely to the fictional truth of the movement.

"Fiction moves in the shadow of doubt," he goes on, "knows itself to be a true lie ... .... ..Moving" perhaps, but what of the nature the point, if any of fictional truth itself?

Remember, however, that the intuition that a sentence like (6) is really, not just fictionally, true hence, that it has real, not just fictional, truth-conditions is a powerful one.

In creating my novel's mother-character, I wanted to take the Truths of what I know as a parent and apply them to a world full of other fictional truths — feelings I don't actually feel but have observed.

Such sentences have a use on which they have merely fictional truth-conditions, that is, truth-conditions from the stand-point of the narrative or work of fiction, and on this kind of use even their truth-values are merely fictional.

More generally, it appears that both games of make-believe and more complicated engagements with fiction, cinema, and visual art are governed by principles of generation, according to which particular prompts or props 'generate' or 'render make-believe' particular fictional truths and that those principles tend to be, for the most part, reality-oriented.

One can argue that fictional truths are grounded in falsehoods, that literary truth is, in Ferrante's words, "released exclusively by words used well".