Drawing on his account of possible worlds, Lewis attempts to specify the truth-conditions for statements of the form, ‘In fiction f, ’. According to Lewis, such truth in fiction is the product of two sources: “the explicit content of the fiction, and a background consisting either of the facts about our world or of the beliefs overt in the community of origin.” In the postscript, Lewis addresses the topics of make-believe, impossible fictions, and fiction in the service of truth.
Keywords: fiction, make-believe, Meinong, modal truth, possible worlds