Fiction, Creation and Fictionality : An Overview

Cross-Fictional Quantification in the Artifactual Theory of Fiction

“…We begin by defining the semantics of fictional discourse with respect to a plurality of worlds. We will also consider worlds compatible with creation, and we will sketch the articulation with external considerations relative to ontological dependencies, as in the modal-temporal framework of Fontaine and Rahman (2014). The set of worlds of our modal framework will contain an actual world, in which the fictions are created.…”

“…This criterion of individuation therefore assumes a multimodal framework, with accessibility relations of two kinds: one -say R C -relates to the worlds compatible with creation, the other -say R F -relates to the worlds compatible with fiction. More concretely, in Fontaine and Rahman (2014), ontological dependencies are defined in a modal-temporal framework with standard Kripkean domains (i.e. where objects can pertain to the domain of several possible worlds).…”

“…2 We will not discuss the definition of ontological dependence in a modal framework either; this would require technicalities that go beyond the scope of the present paper. Actually, we can assume the semantics of Fontaine and Rahman (2014), which can be applied to WLs mutatis mutandis. Thus, we begin by discussing how cross-fictional identity is understood in the ATF, by Thomasson in particular (section 2).…”

Individuality in Fiction and the Creative Role of the Reader

“…The rejection of these principles sets the basis for free logic. See Bencivenga 1986, Leonard 1956, Lambert 1967, 1997, see also Rahman, Rückert and Fischmann 1997, Rahman 2001, Fontaine and Rahman 2010, where ontological commitments are formulated in terms of choices.…”