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20 September 2019

A Philosophical Guide to Make-Believe

Kendall Walton's theory of fiction—Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts (1993)—visualized in a video by Nils-Hennes Stear (h/t Link Here) :

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