Examines truth in fiction from the point of view of a naturalized logic Dismisses orthodox positions on reference and truth, and the machinery of formal semantics Advances an account of propositions unambiguously true and false together that don't violate the Law of Non-Contradiction Also shows that if the Law were violated, it would not lead to cognitive distabilization

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The UBC Honorary Professor of Logic and Director of The Abductive Systems Group. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of The Logic of Fiction (1974), Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972-1982 (with Douglas Walton in 1989). Author of Paradox and Paraconsistency (2003) and, with Dov Gabbay, of Agenda Relevance (2003) and The Reach of Abduction (2005). Author of the Death of Argument (2004), Aristotle's Earlier Logic (2001), Errors of Reasoning: Naturalizing the Logic of Inference (2013) and Is Legal Reasoning Irrational? An Introduction to the Epistemology of Law (2015).

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1. Misconception and Pretence.- 2. A Research Programme for Fiction.- 3. What Readers Know.- 4. Truth-Making.- 5. Sherlock.- 6. Models and Formal Representations.- 7. Sherlock.- 8. Salty Tears and Racing Hearts.- 9. Other Things Sherlock Isn't.- 10. Putting Inconsistency to Rest.