I think I’ve mentioned two works of fiction on this blog so far more prominently than any others: David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System, and Tim O’Brian’s The Things They Carried. Both deal with an odd notion that philosophers have been playing with for the last few decades—how is it that things that don’t exist in the ordinary sense can nevertheless be true?
“Everyone knows” what a unicorn is. It’s a horse-like being with a horn. Easy enough, right? Okay, so pick the unicorns:
One of these things is not like the others . . .
Intentio Lectoris 