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Factionalism vs Fictionalism - What's the difference?

factionalism | fictionalism |

As nouns the difference between factionalism and fictionalism

is that factionalism is the splitting of a group into factions while fictionalism is the doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions.

factionalism

English

Noun

(-)
  • The splitting of a group into factions
  • Conflict between factions

    • Related terms

    * factionalistic * factionalist

    fictionalism

    English

    Noun

  • (philosophy) The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=July 17, Chris John Daly, Fictionalism and the attitudes, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9132-x, volume=139, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=But it seems to me that modal fictionalism is also incredible: normally we do not think that there are countless theories and stories besides the ones we will ever tell, much less that they are infinitely complex and infinitely long and so that it would be humanly impossible to tell them. }}

    Related terms

    *fiction *fictional *fictitious