Answer each question. This should not be an essay, just answer it, since I will use it for an online exam. Be prepared to discuss: 1.Nabokov:good reader, good writer, the thesis of his essay2.Plato:

Answer each question. This should not be an essay, just answer it, since I will use it for an online exam.

Be prepared to discuss: 1.Nabokov:good reader, good writer, the thesis of his essay2.Plato: the distinction between philosophers and poets/sophists, why some forms of poetry have no place in a good City, why poetry/art deals with appearances and not with reality, i.e. three times removed from reality3. Aristotle:  elements of Tragedy, significance of Plot, emotions of pity and fear, Catharsis4. Necessary and Sufficient conditions: be able to identify them and provide examples.5. Emar Maier, Making up Stuff, the distinction between a lie and a fiction. Examples and explanation of some literary techniques (metaphor, irony, sarcasm, unreliable narrators, imaginative resistance)6. Stalnaker: Lewis's definition of possible worlds and his four conditions, be able to explain each and tell which one Stalnaker definitely doesn't accept and why7. Dream and illusion. Descartes' arguments : dream and Evil Genius illusion. How some scenes from Inception and Matrix exemplify  those deceptions and which questions about knowledge are raised; Chalmers: Matrix : Sceptical hypothesis vs Metaphysical hypothesis.

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https://www.mediafire.com/file/1p3oazf7jua1m5y/Stalnaker+Possible+Worlds.pdf/file