• Reflection as a tool for developing professional practice knowledge and expertise
    with J. Gamble and H. Davey
    In Joy Higgs & Angie Titchen (eds.), Practice Knowledge and Expertise in the Health Professions, Butterworth-heinemann. pp. 121--127. 2001.
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    Fictional discourse and fictional languages provide useful test cases for theories of meaning. In this paper, we argue against truth-conditional accounts of meaning on the basis of problems posed by language(s) of fiction. It is well-known how fictional discourse -- discourse about non-existent objects -- poses a problem for truth-conditional theories of meaning. Less well-considered, however, are the problems posed by fictional languages, which can be created to either be meaningful or not to b…Read more