The semantics of fiction

García‐Carpintero, Manuel

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“…Lewis (267) grants them that the names fiction-makers use are not real names -too graciously, in my view, cf. García-Carpintero (2022a, 2022b.…”

Section: Lewis's Assumptionsmentioning

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‘Truth in Fiction’ Reprised

García‐Carpintero¹

2022

The British Journal of Aesthetics

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The paper surveys recent appraisals of David Lewis’s seminal paper on truth in fiction. It examines variations on standard criticisms of Lewis’s account, aiming to show that, if developed as Lewis suggests in his 1983 Postscript A, his proposals on the topic are—as Hanley puts it—‘as good as it gets’. Thus elaborated, Lewis’s account can resist the objections, and it offers a better picture of fictional discourse than recent resurrections of other classic works of the 1970s by Kripke, van Inwagen and Searle. The turn that Lewis suggests and the paper recommends draws on the remaining outstanding contribution from that time: Walton’s.

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“…Lewis (267) grants them that the names fiction-makers use are not real names -too graciously, in my view, cf. García-Carpintero (2022a, 2022b.…”

Section: Lewis's Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Truth in Fiction’ Reprised

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2022

The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Singular Terms in Fiction. Fictional and “Real” Names (III Blasco Disputatio)

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2019

Disputatio

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In this introduction, I consider different problems posed by the use of singular terms in fiction (section 1), paying especial attention to proper names and, in particular, to names of real people, places, etc. As we will see (section 2), descriptivist and Millian theories of reference face different kinds of problems in explaining the use of fictional names in fiction-related contexts. Moreover, the task of advancing a uniform account of names in these contexts—an account which deals not only with fictional names but also with “real” names—will prove to be very hard no matter whether we favour realist or antirealist intuitions about fictional discourse (section 3). Section 4 offers an overview of the content of this volume, with emphasis on the discussion between Manuel García-Carpintero and Stacie Friend about the meaning of “real” names in fiction-related contexts, the main topic of the Third Blasco Disputatio.

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The semantics of fiction

Cited by 2 publications

References 77 publications

‘Truth in Fiction’ Reprised

‘Truth in Fiction’ Reprised

Singular Terms in Fiction. Fictional and “Real” Names (III Blasco Disputatio)

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