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- Title
FICTIONAL NAMES WITHOUT FICTIONAL OBJECTS.
- Authors
ORLANDO, ELEONORA
- Abstract
In this paper, I criticize Mark Sainsbury's proposal concerning the semantic analysis of fictional discourse, as it has been put forward in chapter 6 of his Reference without Referents. His main thesis is that fictional names do not refer, and hence statements containing them are genuinely false and must be interpreted in terms of true paraphrases, arrived at on a case-by-case basis. In my opinion, the proposal has a problem derived from the fact that the relation between some problematic examples „"Holmes is a detective", "Tony Blair admires Holmes", and their suggested paraphrases needs to be clarified and further elaborated.
- Subjects
REFERENCE (Philosophy); NAMES; SAINSBURY, Mark; MEANING (Philosophy); FREE logic; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Crítica, 2008, Vol 40, Issue 120, p111
- ISSN
0011-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2008.1532