 In "Fictional Worlds" (1986), Pavel pointed out that the general truth of a literary text is not dependent upon the truth of the individual propositions belonging to that text.Reflection on literary fiction doesn't need to identify and eliminate false propositions – as it is necessary to do in history or in science.Literary works are "salient structures" in which a secondary, fictional world includes entities and states of affairs that lack a correspondent in the basic, primary world.