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Talking about Nothing
The default view is that hallucinations are experiences of nothing at all. “There’s nothing there,” we’ll tell the victim—provided we think the victim is sober enough to respond to the facts. The default view about the denizens of fictional worlds, similarly, is that the characters and events depicted aren’t real; they correspond to nothing at all. I’m speaking, of course, of the usual case: real people can and do appear in fiction. So too, hallucinations can occur against a background (or foreground) of things veridically seen.
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