ادبیات: واقعیت، خیال یا توهم- ایده‌های فلسفی در تصدیق صور خیال توسط مخاطبان

Literature is a domain encompassing poetry, literary pieces, short stories, and novels. Through these genres, poets and writers influence their audiences and convey messages that are accepted by them. For example, the line "The final note in rain’s travelogue is that the earth is filthy" is a literary piece in which it is claimed that rain travels, writes a travelogue. This is imaginative representations that audiences accept and regard as reports of reality. The question is: In the philosophical framework of Muslims, what conceptions exist regarding imaginative representations? On the basis of which conceptions do audiences consider the imaginative representations of poets and writers as reports of reality? How is the process of belief formed when encountering such human discourses? Four conceptions can be considered to answer this question:
First, Muslim logicians view poetic propositions as imaginative stimuli not factual reports. Second, Al-Sakkaki argues poets creatively expand linguistic referents. Third, Allama Tabatabai through extending the concept of correspondence maintains they can align with ultimate reality. Fourth, the author proposes an intersubjective cultural-hermeneutic convention between poet and audience establishes truth. The nature of the question is philosophical-aesthetic, the method of answering it is analytical, and since it aims at argumentation and proof, it is a type of explanatory question.