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paradox of fiction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
para-dox of -fic-tion
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.

Inflected Forms

paradoxes of fiction (plural)

Questions

What does paradox of fiction mean?
The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.

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