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{{short description|Technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction}}
A '''false document''' is a technique, employed to create [[verisimilitude]] in a work of fiction, where by which an author trieaims to increate a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief for a [[work of artse [[verisimilitude]] by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Timothy C. |title=Contemporary Scottish Gothic |chapter=Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript |year=2014 |pages=54–88 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304986715 |doi=10.1057/9781137457202_3|isbn=978-1-349-49861-1 }}</ref> The goal of a false document is to convince an audience that what is being presented is factual.

==In politics==
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[[Category:Narratology]]
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