Fictive

Famous quotes containing the word fictive:

“The predicate of truth-value of a proposition, therefore, is a mere fictive quality; its place is in an ideal world of science only, whereas actual science cannot make use of it. Actual science instead employs throughout the predicate of weight.”
—Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953)

“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)