Fictional Reports A Study on the Semantics of Fictional Names
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| Language: | English |
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University of the Basque Country
2010-06-01
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| Series: | THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/634 |
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</style> <![endif]-->Against standard descriptivist and referentialist semantics for fictional reports, I will defend a view according to which fictional names do not refer yet they can be distinguished from one another by virtue of their different name-using practices. The logical structures of sentences containing fictional names inherit these distinctions. Different interpretations follow. |
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| ISSN: | 0495-4548 2171-679X |