PARAREALITIES: THE NATURE OF OUR FICTIONS AND HOW WE KNOW THEM -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Chapter One -- 1.1 POSTULATE I: The Initial Cut in the Flux of Experience Results in an Elemental Negation Whereby That which Is Is Contrasted with That which It Is Not. -- 1.2 POSTULATE II: Negation Is Possible Only with Respect to Something. -- Chapter Two -- 2.0 THEOREM I: Knowing What a Fiction Is Entails Tacit Knowledge of What It Is Not. -- 2.1 How the Range of All Possible Fictions Can Be Made Intelligible -- 2.2 Conception/Perception-Imagination of Fictions Entails a Fictional Operator -- 2.3 To Conceive/Perceive-Imagine a Fiction Is to Oscillate between What the "Real World" Is and What It Is Not. -- 2.4 Fictional Responses Vary with Respect to the Type of Fictional Constructs. -- 2.5 On the Nature of the Barrier between Fictions and the "Real World" -- 2.6 Fictional Worlds versus Dream Worlds -- Chapter Three -- 3.0 THEOREM II: Knowing What a Fiction Is Entails Knowing Part of the Intrinsic Background of Possibilities. -- 3.1 Foundations for a Model of the Intrinsic Background. -- 3.2 The Relationship between Language, Images, and Fictions with Respect to the Intrinsic Background. -- 3.3 The Intrinsic Background as an Unlimited Set of Possibilities -- 3.4 On the Interface between the Intrinsic Background and the "Real World." -- 3.5 A Postulated Common Base for Mathematics, Scientific Fictions, and Natural Language Fictions. -- Chapter Four -- 4.0 THEOREM III: Knowing a Fiction Entails an Initial Split between Knower and Known. -- 4.1 Preliminaries -- 4.2 The Many Worlds of Fictions -- 4.3 The Schizophrenic Self and Its Self-Consuming Fictions -- 4.4 The Domain of Imaginary Worlds: Jungle or Labyrinth -- 4.5 Continuity versus Discontinuity -- 4.6 The Potential for Imaginary Worlds.

4.7 The Upper Bounds o f Imaginary Worlds -- Chapter Five -- 5.0 THEOREM IV: Knowing a Fiction Begins at the Limits of the/a "Real World." -- 5.1 Toward a Formal Model of the Upper Bounds Representing the Range of All Possible Fictional Sentences. -- Epilogue: Some Speculation Beyond -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Notes -- References.