Finding Truth in Literature

This thesis uses Amy Kind’s defense of epistemic relevance in imagination to examine how and when true beliefs imparted in literary imaginings are justified as knowledge. I will show that readers’ literary imaginings must pass a test of epistemic relevance, as well as be paired with a strong affirmi...

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Main Author: Antonova, Antonia Ivo
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/992
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2096&context=cmc_theses