Impossible fictions have lessons to teach us about linguistic representation, about mental content and concepts, and about uses of conceivability in epistemology. An adequate theory of impossible fictions may require theories of meaning that can distinguish between different impossibilities; a theory of conceptual truth that allows us to make useful sense of a variety of conceptual falsehoods; and a theory of our understanding of necessity and possibility that permits impossibilities to be conceived. After discussing these questions, strategies for resisting the picture of impossible fictions presented here and in Part I are discussed. Perhaps apparently impossible fictions describe possibilities after all; or perhaps impossible fictions are all trivial; or perhaps some apparently intelligible impossible fictions are unintelligible after all.

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不可能的小说第二部分：关于思想，语言和认识论的课程

不可能的小说有教训，可以教给我们有关语言表征，心理内容和概念以及认识论中可想象性的用法的知识。适当的不可能小说理论可能需要能够区分不同可能性的意义理论。一种概念真理理论，使我们能够从各种概念虚假中获得有用的认识；以及我们对必要性和可能性的理解的理论，这种可能性允许设想不可能。在讨论了这些问题之后，讨论了在这里和第一部分中提出的抵制不可能的小说的策略。也许显然不可能的小说毕竟描述了可能性。也许不可能的小说都是琐碎的；也许毕竟有些难以理解的虚构小说是无法理解的。