Though I don’t think the analytic function metaphor illuminates much, I do agree with your premise. I think that so long as what is created makes sense in the world it is created then it is believable. Of course, being believable is not always desired by a writer but that escapes the bounding of the post.
That is part of the draw of fantasy worlds, that they are not our own permits a greater range of believeability, within the world itself. Taking something from Star Wars or LotR and placing it, without the appropriate context, (which would be, to its fullest extent, the rest of the respective fantasy world) into our world will render it unbelievable, but that is okay, so long as it is believable within its world.
(And yes, technically Star Wars takes place in our world just far away and long ago, oops)
Though I don’t think the analytic function metaphor illuminates much, I do agree with your premise. I think that so long as what is created makes sense in the world it is created then it is believable. Of course, being believable is not always desired by a writer but that escapes the bounding of the post.
That is part of the draw of fantasy worlds, that they are not our own permits a greater range of believeability, within the world itself. Taking something from Star Wars or LotR and placing it, without the appropriate context, (which would be, to its fullest extent, the rest of the respective fantasy world) into our world will render it unbelievable, but that is okay, so long as it is believable within its world.
(And yes, technically Star Wars takes place in our world just far away and long ago, oops)