dc.contributor.author
García-Carpintero, Manuel
dc.date.issued
2024-03-05T18:43:18Z
dc.date.issued
2024-12-31T06:10:10Z
dc.date.issued
2024-03-05T18:43:18Z
dc.identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/2445/208398
dc.description.abstract
The paper reviews proposals by Abell, Predelli, and others on the semantics of fiction, focusing on the discourse through which fictions are created. Predelli develops the radical fictionalism of former writers like Kripke and van Inwagen, according to which that discourse is contentless and does not express propositions. This paper offers reasons to doubt these claims. It then explores realist proposals like Abell's in which singular terms in fictions refer to fictional characters, understood as socially created representational artifacts, and irrealist alternatives in which the discourse is fully meaningful even though those terms fail to refer.
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application/pdf
dc.publisher
John Wiley & Sons
dc.relation
Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12412
dc.relation
Mind & Language, 2023, vol. 38, num.2, p. 604-618
dc.relation
https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12412
dc.rights
(c) John Wiley & Sons, 2023
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source
Articles publicats en revistes (Filosofia)
dc.subject
Anàlisi del discurs
dc.subject
Referència (Filosofia)
dc.subject
Teoria de les ficcions
dc.subject
Discourse analysis
dc.subject
Reference (Philosophy)
dc.subject
Theory of fictions
dc.title
The semantics of Fiction
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
