@article {Currie:March 1998:0268-1064:35, author = "Currie, Gregory", title = "Pretence, Pretending and Metarepresenting", journal = "Mind & Language", volume = "13", year = "March 1998", abstract = "I assess the claim that metarepresentation is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. I argue that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from belief. I sketch an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing. This depends on a distinction between pretending and pretence, and upon the claim that pretence stands to pretending as truth stands to belief.", pages = "35-55(21)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/mila/1998/00000013/00000001/art00005" doi = "doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00064" }