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Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
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2021-01-28Registro en:
Orlando, Eleonora Eva; Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account; Slovak Academy of Sciences; Organon F; 28; 1; 28-1-2021; 107-134
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Autor
Orlando, Eleonora Eva
Resumen
The main thesis I want to defend in this essay 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.
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