Keith Oatley Quote

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made, fiction is different from something discovered, as in physics, or from something that happened, as in the news. But this does not mean it is false. Fiction is about possible selves in possible worlds.

"Changing our Minds," originally published in Changing our Minds magazine.

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made,...

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made,...

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made,...

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made,...