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When using the terms "fictional discourse," "fictional utterance," and "fictional statement" in this paper, what the authors have in mind is the speech and writing of the author of a fiction. More specifically, Abell argues that there are institutional rules governing fictional discourse, dictating that when a fictional utterance is made, the authors are to imagine so-and-so. What is declared, on Abell`s view-i.e., the institutional fact that is made to obtain through the performance of the act-is that some specific content obtains in the fiction (is "fictional"). As . . .
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