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