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Jeonggyu Lee
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 381–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab041
Published: 06 July 2021
...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) fictional objects creationism authorial intention inadvertent creation reference shift Referentialism about Fictional Names : The semantic content of a fictional name, if it has any, is its referent, a fictional...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... pretense theoretic fictionalism Brock Stuart fictional objects fictional realism Manning Luke negative existentials intentional identity Geach Peter Geach sentence mythical objects fictional objects fictional names fictionalist theories of fiction Hob-Nob problem Peter Geach Peter van Inwagen...
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Stuart Brock (ed.) and Anthony Everett (ed.)
Published online: 20 August 2015
Published in print: 01 June 2015
...The essays in this collection aim to make sense of our talk about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. The chapters in this volume take a variety of different perspectives on the metaphysics of fictionalia. But they all address the same questions...
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Published: 29 August 2013
...This introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the aims and structure of the book. The primary aim of the book is to argue for an anti-realist view of fictional objects. More precisely, the book motivates, develops, and defends an account on which our talk and thought about fictional...
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Published: 29 August 2013
...) John admires Holmes, Hence there is something that John admires, namely Holmes. Semantic arguments for fictional objects maintain that certain sentences that are intuitively true indirectly commit us to fictional objects, in that the proper semantics for such sentences is one on which...
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Published: 29 August 2013
... that there are fictional objects. That is to say we can regard this pretense as conforming to the following principle: (IDP) If a fiction f is such that, (1) [   f a exists and b exists]   f , and (2) [   E P a is not real and b is not real...
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Published: 02 May 2025
... fictional discourse mixed perspectives abstract artifact fictional objects metafictional parafictional encoding exemplifying In this chapter we discuss the prospects of a Property Versatility account of fictional discourse. 1 Consider Alan Pinkerton (a real-life historical detective, who...
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Published online: 22 December 2016
Published in print: 11 August 2016
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Published: 11 August 2016
... The Objects of Thought. Crane T anti realism constant domain semantics existent objects non existent objects Objects of Thought The Crane semantics supervenience and the non existent variable domain semantics Deutsch H abstract objects fictional objects mathematical objects intentional operators...
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Published: 01 June 2015
...’ languages. The chapter explores the consequences of these views for belief. general terms propositions Crimmins Mark fictional realism negative existentials fictional objects Kripke Saul Thomasson Amie van Inwagen Peter fictional names Salmon Nathan mythical objects mythical names fictional...
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Published: 01 June 2015
...Over the last thirty years, a number of philosophers have claimed that the semantic data favours realism about fictional objects over any variety of antirealism. We must assume realism, it has been maintained, if we want (i) to provide a smooth and systematic analysis of certain claims made...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... worry: that the artefactualist has to accept that there ‘really are’ such ‘things’ as ‘fictional objects’. Section 1 briefly responds to the problem of negative existence claims, which, in turn, will begin to make evident why the ontological worry is not at all worrisome—an issue covered in Section 2...
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Published online: 14 July 2005
Published in print: 19 May 2005
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Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 29 August 2013
...This book argues for an anti-realist view of fictional objects. More precisely it develops and defends a pretense-theoretic account of our talk and thought that purports to be about such things. On this approach there are no such things as fictional objects and our talk and thought that purports...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... from Kripke’s plurality objections. His case against Haecceitism must therefore rest entirely on his pretence view of fictional discourse. But the pretence view does not work either; so Haecceitism survives. Haecceitiem Currie Gregory fictional objects Kripke Saul Lewis David McMichael Alan...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... names van Inwagen Peter negative existentials Manning Luke mythical attributes fictional objects Etype pronoun Evans Gareth mythical general terms fictional objects Hob-Nob problem David Braun Peter Geach Saul Kripke The medieval distinction of de dicto and de re...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... are hybrid entities individuated in terms of both a certain make-believe narrative process and the properties that one such narration mobilizes. In the final section, criticisms to this approach are faced and discussed. fictional objects fictional realism metaphysics contrasted with ontology Berto...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... that there are indiscernible fictional objects, indeed an indeterminate number of them. To the extent that such a conclusion is metaphysically intolerable we should reject this kind of argument for creationism. artefactual theories of fictional objects Braun David Evans Gareth fictional objects fictional realism Goodman...
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Ben Caplan and Cathleen Muller
Published: 01 June 2015
... Benjamin von Solodkoff Tatiana artefactual theories of fictional objects Berto Francesco Braun David fictional objects Fine Kit Kripke Saul Lewis David meinongianism Priest Graham Routley Richard Sainsbury Mark Salmon Nathan Thomasson Amie van Inwagen Peter Zalta Edward Cameron Ross...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... predicates and fictional properties which, if brought into question, undermines those theories as plausible theories of fictional names and fictional characters. Ultimately, these considerations lend support to a pretence theory. fictional attributes fictional names fictional objects general terms...