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    Commentary: Fitting vaccine conspiracies into a philosophy of fiction

    by Hannah Kim, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2022 3 minutes

    As a philosophy professor specializing in language, it is my job to conceptually distinguish fiction from lies. Lies are falsehoods shared with the intent to deceive; fiction is falsehood shared without the intent to deceive. My academic work examines how it is that we think “Hamlet is a prince” is true while knowing that “Hamlet doesn’t exist” is also true.

    I teach my students about these distinctions — the difference between “fictional truth” and truth. Yet armed with this intellectual

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