szkoła-i-dom: Fictional location

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Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse or Wonderland. They can also be inspired by actually existing locations. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as a backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. They may also be used for technical reasons in actual reality for use in the development of specifications, such as the fictional country of Bookland, which is used to allow EAN "country" codes 978 and 979 to be used for ISBN numbers assigned to books, and code 977 to be assigned for use for ISSN numbers on magazines and ot…

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Memory of Fictional Information: A Theoretical Framework.. Much of the information people encounter in everyday life is not factual; it originates from fictional sources, such as movies, novels, and video games, and from direct experience such as pretense, role-playing, and everyday conversation. Despite the recent increase in research on fiction, there is no theoretical account of how memory of fictional information is related to other types of memory or of which mechanisms allow people to separate fact and fiction in memory. We present a theoretical framework that places memory of fiction in relation to other cognitive phenomena as a distinct construct and argue that it is an essential co…

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Fictional truth. A well-known theory about under which circumstances a statement is true in a fiction is the Reality Principle (RP), which originates in the work of David Lewis: “(RP) Where p 1 …p n are the primary fictional truths of a fiction F, it is true in F that q iff the following holds: were p 1 …p n the case, q would have been the case” (Walton 1990, 44). RP has been subjected to a number of counterexamples, up to a point where, in the words of Stacie Friend (2017, 33), “it is widely recognized that the Reality Principle […] cannot be a universal inference rule for implied story-truths”. This chapter argues that the strength of these counterexamples is widely overestimated, and tha…

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Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction.. We present a comprehensive analysis of the rise of fictions across human narratives, using large-scale datasets that collectively span over 65,000 works across various media (movies, literary works), cultures (over 30 countries, Western and non-Western), and time periods (2000 BCE to 2020 CE). We measured fictiveness - defined as the degree of departure from reality - across three narrative dimensions: protagonists, events, and settings. We used automatic annotations from large language models (LLMs) to systematically score fictiveness and ensured the robustness and validity of our measure, specifically by demonstrating predictable variations…