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Fiction vs Fictionalism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fiction and fictionalism

is that fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose while fictionalism is (philosophy) the doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions.

fiction

Noun

(en noun)
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
    I am a great reader of fiction .
  • (uncountable) Invention.
  • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .

    Synonyms

    * fabrication * figment

    Antonyms

    * documentary * fact * non-fiction

    Derived terms

    * non-fiction * science fiction * speculative fiction * fiction section

    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. }}