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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Useful fiction, stubborn facts

Someone on the Internet asked the William James Society if a useful fiction can be true.
WJ's reply:

Literary fiction can be true in the pragmatic sense, definitely. But unlike my shallower younger brother the novelist, I have to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts. We pragmatists do not deny reality. We do sometimes attempt to defy it.

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Useful fiction, stubborn facts

Someone on the Internet asked the William James Society if a useful fiction can be true. WJ's reply: Literary fiction can be true ...