Fictionalism, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionalism
But I take it on a flipflop view; if it’s all fiction, it all might as well be true, just perpetually not entirely accurate.
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Yes. What I like about proceeding with an “almost-not-quite” view rather than an “as-if”/fictionalist is that it can encompass itself as well.
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This way, I don’t have to hold “one notion” to have a privileged place above all, that of “”nothing is true”. I leave the possibility open while acknowledging it’s highly unlikely anything can be determined as “true-true” as it were
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Interesting about Borges; he was part of the start of post-modernism and I don’t think he saw himself that way; he still had a tether to modernism but only just.
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Well, they wouldn’t! To be so very skeptical of everything as to even be skeptical of itself.
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Post modernism’s skepticism of all things was (as its era I think passed somewhere around the 1980s and it instead became yet another historical object-of-study) – a little excessive in the end, but useful.
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