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Definition of Fictions
1. fiction [n] - See also: fiction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fictions
Literary usage of Fictions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray, Roland Gray (1921)
"There is a strong feeling against the use at the present day of fictions in the
Law. This feeling is justifiable or not, according as the fictions belong to ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"fictions, or legal fictions, in law, the term used for false averments, ...
Again, some fictions are deliberate falsehoods, adopted as true for the purpose ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"But the whole is a very fair debut in criticism, inclined as we should expect to
the moral side, but not illegitimately so. The Essai sur les fictions, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen (1894)
"Necessary use of fictions.— It is frequently a nice and important question to
determine whether a certain combination of facts constitutes a cause of action ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... fictions consecrated by the imagination of the Greeks, were introduced as the
richest ornaments of the houses, the dress, and the furniture, ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1920)
"LOGICAL fictions. IV. Words, then, like other things, ... Thus considered, what
we call words are fictions, just as a tree is a fiction. ..."
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