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▸ noun: (philosophy) The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.
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▸ noun: (philosophy) The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.
Similar:
irrealism,
quasi-realism,
paradox,
Zeno's paradox,
pseudoreality,
cognitive parallax,
emotional reasoning,
argument from illusion,
analogon,
hyperreality,
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Opposite:
Types:
paradox of tragedy,
paradox of suspense,
paradox of horror,
paradox of comedy,
paradox of empathy,
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