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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/208398| Title: | The semantics of Fiction |
| Author: | García-Carpintero, Manuel |
| Keywords: | Anàlisi del discurs Referència (Filosofia) Teoria de les ficcions Discourse analysis Reference (Philosophy) Theory of fictions |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| 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. |
| Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12412 |
| It is part of: | Mind & Language, 2023, vol. 38, num.2, p. 604-618 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/208398 |
| Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12412 |
| ISSN: | 0268-1064 |
| Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filosofia) |
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