Meanings
- not comparableRelating to transfiction.
1 more example
[T]ransfictional statements about models should be read as prefixed with a clause stating what the relevant respects of the comparison are, and this allows us to rephrase comparative sentences as comparisons between properties rather than objects…Hence, truth conditions for transfictional statements (in the context of scientific modelling) come down to truth conditions for comparative statements between properties, which are unproblematic in the current context (that is, the problems that attach to them have nothing to do with issues surrounding fictional discourse).
2008 December 6, Peter Godfrey-Smith, “Models and fictions in science”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 1, →DOI, pages 101–116
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*térh₂t
- Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂ónts
- Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂n̥ts
- Proto-Italic*trāns
- Proto-Italic*trāns-
- Latintrans-
- Englishtrans-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
- Proto-Italic*θingō
- Proto-Italic*fingō
- Latinfingō
- Latinfictiō
- Old Frenchficcion
- Middle Englishficcioun
- Englishfiction
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfictional
- Englishtransfictional
Cite this entry
transfictional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfictional
“transfictional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfictional. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transfictional,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfictional.
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