A type of microtheory that is a specialization of propositional information (qq.v.). Each instance of fictional context is an informational microtheory that represents things explicitly from the point of view of some work of fiction (see fictional work).

A fictional context is assumed to include many assertions that are widely believed to be false or questionable. Such assertions might or might not be about actually-existing things. For example, the fictional context associated with the Sherlock Holmes stories contains assertions about London as well as assertions about Holmes.

Note that the work associated with a given fictional context must have been created intentionally, and not by error or chance or gradual evolution and accretion in a culture.

Cf. nonfictional context.