FICTIONAL NAMES: REFERENCE, DEFINITENESS AND ONTOLOGY

• Authors: Sainsbury Mark
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Definite linguistic expressions, for example proper names and singular and plural pronouns are easy to introduce. Indefinite expressions may pave the way, but are not essential. It is also not essential that there be entities to which the successfully introduced definite refer. This is the underlying fact that makes fiction possible, and it gives guidance about fictional names: we have no need in general to suppose that there exist entities to which they refer.

Keywords

EN

FICTION; DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44 – 59

Contributors

author

Sainsbury Mark

• University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, 2210 Speedway, Stop C3500 WAG 316, Austin, Texas

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28103