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To: The Philosopher who wrote (45628)	7/14/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What about a pompous reference to an article - usually in some obscure journal - which does not in fact exist? This device has been used many times, though the Internet will eventually render it obsolete. In this case we have a real reference to an article which does not in fact exist: a fictitious article. I still maintain that it will be impossible for Terrence to produce a fictitious article, let alone one that he wrote. A reference to one, perhaps. But if it can be produced, it exists, and therefore is not fictitious.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (45628)	7/14/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

Yes, I agree, of course. I was anticipating some possible case FT might make for the existence of a fictitious article. Actually, what I described would be a real article with fictitiously authored. I would say, though, about the question of whether there might be a fictitious PhD thesis, that the resume reference to Sparrows, Their Ability to Predict the Direction of the Market Proven Statistically, is real (though fraudulent,) having been made in expectation of advantage; but the article itself is fictitious, never having been written.