Ordinary Referring Names in Fictional Contexts

Ordinary proper names can be taken to be referring expressions in non-fictional contexts. But what happens when such names occur in literary works? Within the realist stance, there are two approaches to the issue. Some say that ordinary proper names retain their real world referents in literary fict...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zoltán Vecsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2022-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/82267