Możliwe światy i presupozycja w fikcji literackiej

Abstract

The paper falls into three sections. In the first section the literary fiction is discussed in terms of a doxastic alternative to the real world. The possible worlds compatible with the narrator’s beliefs are treated as extensions whereas the text itself is regarded as intension. The text is crucial in exstablishing the truth conditions of propositions about the narrator’s world. In the second section the role of presupposition in the building up of the narrator’s world is considered. It is evidenced that presupposition, beside its referring function may also serve to remind or inform the reader of the properties of the narrator’s world. The third section is a brief presentation of three views on the fictional world as they are expressed by various narrators. The „consciously autonomous” , „identifying” and „sceptical” attitudes are distinguished and illustrated.