Editing Ontology:BecauseAuthorSaidSo (section)

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</li><li class="field_fantasy" value="618" data-dimension="F2">[F2] Fictional events only happen because the author said so / Details in fiction only exist because the author said so  ->  no. if this were true Media Representation would be impossible. say there's a fictional book meant to teach people about the United States Reconstruction era, or slaves escaping to the North. can somebody just go around saying that every single thing that happens in that book is the author's opinionated agenda peculiar to their own individual tastes and not inherently shared with any other person like them for reasons they did not choose? or are some of the things in that book in there because they are representational art of things that regularly happen in the real world or have happened? if historical fiction can be based on particular unique historical events, then events in books can also be based on general patterns seen in history. and they can be based on scientific models. and they can be based on any number of internally-coherent things which make sense in and of themselves without asking what the author's desires or agenda are. many well-written stories don't look intentionally designed, and you keep this in mind if you want to solve them.
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