Przegląd i ocena stanowisk w debacie o paradoksie fikcji
Review and evaluation of positions in the debate on the fiction paradox

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the paradox of fiction, i.e. the phenomenon of the audience of narrative works feeling sincere emotions towards fictional characters and events, despite the fact that they have the belief that fictional entities do not actually exist. The aim is to evaluate the existing theories explaining this paradox by detailing their merits and limitations. The author discusses successively the make-believe theory, the thought theory, the illusion theory, the surrogate-belief theory and the anti-judgmentalist solution. It is pointed out that the last theory is the best candidate for solving the paradox of fiction.

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