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To: E who wrote (45611)	7/14/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

No, he did not promise to provide a 'fictitious article.' He most certainly did: Message 10511399 "I shall give you an example of a "fictitious article" tomorrow." Hard to get more explicit than that. He didn't explicitly claim that he would give an example of a "fictitious article" written by him, though. That would have been more amusing. As you point out, a "fictitious article" could be one that a person claimed to have written, but which in fact did not exist. But he claimed to have actually written fictitious articles, and I stand by my comment that if an article has been written it cannot be fictitious. We shall see.

To: E who wrote (45611)	7/14/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sorry, E, but I think you overstepped here. First, an article written by one person but claimed by another is not fictitious. It is a real article; it is just that the claim of authorship is false. (Not even fictitious because the claim is itself real.) What you call fictitious PhD theses are not fictitious articles either. They are fictitious references perhaps, but they are not articles at all so they can't be fictitious. And even if I allowed your usage, you couldn't produce one. You could only produce a fraudulent reference to one.

To: E who wrote (45611)	7/15/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Here is yet another fictitious article written by Brady, the Invisible Man: " . . . . . . . . . . . ." A most interesting article dealing with existence and non-existence.