Title Fictional Names : a Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities.

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Description	1 online resource (125 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Contents	Table of contents; preface; acknowledgments; part i -- fictional names; part ii -- fictional names and gappy propositions; part iii -- a unified pragmatic account for vacuous names; part iv -- pretence construal and fictional names; bibliography; index.
Summary	If it is true that when we use a name, it must be the name of something, what is it that we name when we use terms such as Sherlock Holmes, Odysseus, and many of the same type? What is it we are addressing and how do the referential relations work assuming that we are thinking or talking about something when we use these terms? Otherwise, if we are speaking about nothing when we use a fictional name, how do we understand the linguistic process which gives us the impression of speaking about s ...
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Subject	Characters and characteristics in literature -- Philosophy.
	Characters and characteristics in literature.
	Philosophy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Napolano, Angelo. Fictional Names : A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443859738
ISBN	9781443869058 (electronic book)
	1443869058 (electronic book)
	1443859737
	9781443859738