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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9069360" data-attributes="member: 71699">Up-thread we discussed Tolkien in the context of some ideas about simulationism. In his essay &quot;On Fairy Stories&quot; is this insight into his thinking: Tolkien explains thatI have argued (for example in my posts #768 and #769) that the truth-value of facts in an imagined world is in virtue of their author establishing those facts. Practically speaking, the author is conceded expertise over that world: what they say is true just because they are the one to have said it.Tolkien adds a constraint. The author has said it, and they are in accord with the laws of that world. I suspect that amounts to saying that&nbsp; any proposed new facts must be in accord and not discord with existing facts. Seeing as any laws of that world are just those that the author has themselves constructed, or adopted in through some process (such as choosing a game text.) A clear statement of a simulationist principle: by Tolkien.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9069360, member: 71699"] Up-thread we discussed Tolkien in the context of some ideas about simulationism. In his essay "On Fairy Stories" is this insight into his thinking: Tolkien explains that I have argued (for example in my posts #768 and #769) that the truth-value of facts in an imagined world is in virtue of their author establishing those facts. Practically speaking, the author is conceded expertise over that world: what they say is true just because they are the one to have said it. Tolkien adds a constraint. The author has said it, and they are in accord with the laws of that world. I suspect that amounts to saying that any proposed new facts must be in accord and not discord with existing facts. Seeing as any laws of that world are just those that the author has themselves constructed, or adopted in through some process (such as choosing a game text.) A clear statement of a simulationist principle: by Tolkien. [/QUOTE]

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