Nonexistent
Anthony Everett gives a philosophical defence of the common-sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. He argues that our talk and thought about such fictional objects takes place within the scope of a pretense, and that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism.
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- Full title :Nonexistent / Anthony Everett.
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Anthony Everett gives a philosophical defence of the common-sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. He argues that our talk and thought about such fictional objects takes place within the scope of a pretense, and that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
- Edition:1st ed
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191662454, 0191662453
- oclc:ocn859159127
- LC Classification:BD219
- Dewey Decimal:111
Table of Contents
Fiction and the imagination -- Talking through the pretense -- Truth, content, aboutness -- Objections -- Fictional realism -- Contra fictional realism -- Metaphysical problems.
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