FICTIONAL NAMES AND FICTIONAL CONCEPTS: A MODERATE FICTIONALIST ACCOUNT

• Authors: Orlando Eleonora
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

I want to defend in this essay that the main thesis is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual. Given there is no material particular a fictional name could be referring to, it will be construed as referring to the concept of a particular, with which many descriptive concepts are associated, in the context of the set of thoughts constitutive of a fictional narrative. A fictional narrative will be thus characterised as a conceptual world, namely, a set of sentence-types semantically correlated with a set of thought-types.

Keywords

EN

FICTIONAL NAME; FICTIONAL NARRATIVE; FICTIONALISM; PARAFICTIVE; METAFICTIVE

• 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: 107 – 134

Contributors

author

Orlando Eleonora

• University of Buenos Aires, Bulnes 642 - CP: 1176 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28106