HYPOTHETICAL FICTIONALISM
HYPOTHETICAL FICTIONALISM

Summary/Abstract: As a philosophical discipline, fictionalism can be—and has been—used to explore the conscious and unconscious ,,fictions” informing discourses about the quasi-universal problem-solving fabric of human science and culture (language included). To a certain extent, factionalism is based upon a theory of imposibilia, and thus relies heavily on dialetheism: there are no such things as fictional realities/entities, yet we make-believe that something like that does exist; and they exist in philosophy (metaphysics), in mathematics and natural sciences, in religion, politics, morality, history, law, psychology, aesthetics… and literature (though ―one cannot be a factionalist about real fictions). The title is a half-ironic and obvious allusion to Hans Vaihinger and his highly influential Philosophy of ,,As If” that seems to be very much behind most of the later work outlined in this paper.

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