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It is common practice while reading a novel to subject the characters, plot and even the secondary world represented there to the judgment “Are they believable?” The reason we do subject novels to such evaluations is that it is a traditional expectation and delight of the reader to be drawn into created secondary worlds and to feel that the story has been, in some sense, experienced as “lived time.”
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J. R. R. Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories,” The Tolkien Reader (New York: Ballantine Books, 1971), pp. 36–37.
D. W. Smith and Ronald Mc Intyre provide a very thorough, if sometimes a bit speculative, exposition of the Husserlian notion of horizon in their book: Husserl and Intentionality (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1984), pp. 227–265.
See: Otto Muck, The Transcendental Method, trans. William Seidensticker (New York: Herder & Herder, 1968), pp. 301–306 and Emerich Coreth, Metaphysics, trans. Joseph Donceel (New York: The Seabury Press, 1973), pp. 46–68.
Roman Ingarden, The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, trans. Ruth Crowley and Kenneth Olson (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), p. 47.
Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, trans. Dorion Cairns (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973), 28: 62.
J. N. Mohanty, “Intentionality and Possible Worlds: Husserl and Hintikka” in Herbert Dreyfus and Harrison Hall, eds., Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science (Cambridge: M. I. T. Press, 1983), pp. 243–245.
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Phenomenology, trans. David Carr (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970), pp. 45–46.
Edmund Husserl, Ideas, trans. W. R. Boyce Gibson (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1976), 72: 204.
In trying to square Husserl with possible worlds theory in modal logic, Smith and McIntyre tend to homogenize the distinctions Husserl made between the different kinds of manifolds. The result is an interpretation of the Husserlian notion of possibility which makes it mere logical possibility. (Op. cit.) However, Husserl seems to intend something narrower when he speaks of possible worlds. He ties the notion of possibility more directly to the various material determinations of existence, and interprets possibility as dependent upon the “laws of nature” as upon pure logic. This is especially true in his later and posthumous writings. See, for example, Experience and Judgment and The Crisis of European Sciences.
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Ryba, T. (1990). Husserl, Fantasy and Possible Worlds. In: Kronegger, M. (eds) Phenomenology and Aesthetics. Analecta Husserliana, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2027-9_17
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