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Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse?

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Singular terms used in fictions for fictional characters raise well-known philosophical issues, explored in depth in the literature. But philosophers typically assume that names already in use to refer to 'moderate-sized specimens of dry goods' cause no special problem when occurring in fictions, behaving there as they ordinarily do in straightforward assertions. In this paper I continue a debate with Stacie Friend, arguing against this for the exceptionalist view that names of real entities in fictional discourse don't work there as they do in simple-sentence assertions, but rather as fictional names do.

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Anàlisi del discurs, Referència (Filosofia)

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Discourse analysis, Reference (Philosophy)

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GARCÍA-CARPINTERO, Manuel. Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse?. Disputatio. 2019. Vol. XI, num. 54, pags. 143-177. ISSN 0873-626X. [consulted: 9 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/160057

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