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This paper discusses issues in the representation of fictional entities and the representation of propositions from fiction, using SNePS. It briefly surveys four philosophical ontological theories of fiction and sketches an epistemological theory of fiction (to be implemented in SNePS) using a story operator and rules for allowing propositions to “migrate” into and out of story “spaces”.
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Rapaport, W.J. (1990). Representing fiction in SNePS. In: Kumar, D. (eds) Current Trends in SNePS — Semantic Network Processing System. SNePS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022087
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