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Philosophy of art

readers' reluctance to imagine fictional worlds in which morally deviant claims are true, unlike their ease with other fictional facts.

In philosophy of art, imaginative resistance refers to readers' reluctance to imagine fictional worlds in which morally deviant claims are true, unlike their ease with other fictional facts. This meaning comes from Gendler (2000) in The Journal of Philosophy.[1]

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Gendler, T. S. (2000). The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance. The Journal of Philosophy, 97(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.2307/2678446

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