Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
Author(s): Eleonora OrlandoSubject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Semantics, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Filozofický ústav SAV
Keywords: fictional name; fictional narrative; fictionalism; fictive, parafictive and metafictive uses; mental file; singular thought;
Summary/Abstract: The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual. Given there is no material particular a fictional name could be referring to, it will be construed as referring to the concept of a particular, with which many descriptive concepts are associated, in the context of the set of thoughts constitutive of a fictional narrative. A fictional narrative will be thus characterised as a conceptual world, namely, a set of sentence-types semantically correlated with a set of thought-types.
Journal: Organon F
- Issue Year: 28/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 107-134
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English
