... addresses questions about the relationship between singular thought and fictional reference, mythical reference, and empty reference. Reference Armstrong, D. M. ( 1991 ) “Intentionality, Perception and Causality: Reflections on John Searle's Intentionality.” In LePore and Van Gulick, eds...

... role in the cognitive life of the individual. This chapter elaborates an alternative account that preserves acquaintance, and focuses on aspects of the semantics of fictional reference and discourse. It addresses the behaviour of intuitively empty referential expressions, proper names, indexicals...

... an analysis of fictional reference as reference to possible objects. However, one difficulty with the description theory of fiction is that an actual object, even if it fits all the right descriptions, does not normally qualify as the subject of a fictive picture. In discussing fiction and pretence...