Fiction as a Base of Interpretation Contexts

Utterance at a distance

“…This point marks an important difference between my view and that ofVoltolini (2006). Voltolini seeks to solve the answerphone problem by interpreting the authors of recorded messages, etc., as engaging in an act of pretend assertion.…”

I Am Still Not Here Now

“…I devote section four to the discussion of some recent defences of Kaplan's views about 'I','here',and 'now'. 4 A further position which for reasons of space I do not discuss in the main text appeals to the idea of pretence, and to the related notion of the 'pretended' setting of utterance (see Recanati 2007;Voltolini 2006;Mount 2008; for criticisms, see Krasner 2006). My arguments may however straightforwardly applied to this proposal: 'pretended contexts' provide a solution to the semantic problems raised by 'I am not here now' only as long as they are improper.…”

“…3 According to Vision, the time of assertion is the intended time of reception(Vision 1985, p. 199), and for Sidelle 'the referents of ''here'' and ''now'' are given by the intended, or maybe expected, location and time of the utterance'(Sidelle 1991, p. 537). For a criticism of intentionalism, seeCorazza et al (2002),Gorvett (2005), andVoltolini (2006).…”

How Ficta Follow Fiction: Replies to Commentators

“…Now, not only do these worlds work as circumstances of evaluation for connivingly used sentences, they also figure as parameters of fictional contexts . These are the contexts that connivingly used sentences need in order for them to get fictional truth‐conditions when so used (according to a view originally proposed by Recanati 2000 and further developed in Voltolini 2006). Thus, linking a sentence with a fictional context already accounts for the fact that a connivingly used sentence has a content.…”