- The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a
mere fiction of the mind. - That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially,
a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story
told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or
reality. - Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of
imagination; specifically, novels and romances. - An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective
of the question of its truth. - Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing
more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really
at issue.
Guiding fiction Guiding fiction is a concept, proposed by Alfred Adler, that people have constant principles by which they evaluate their experiences and behaviour.
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