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  1. David Lewis ‘Truth in Fiction’,American Philosophical Quarterly 15 (1978), pp. 37–46,

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Bertolet, R. Inferences, names, and fictions. Synthese 58, 203–218 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03055305

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