How Ficta Follow Fiction : A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities / by Alberto Voltolini

Englisch

Dordrecht : Springer, 2006

Online-Ressource : v.: digital

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and indexes

978-1-4020-5147-0

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4020-5146-3 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5147-6

The Committal Theories (I); The Committal Theories (II); The Syncretistic Theory; Further Developments of the Syncretistic Theory; The Noncommittal Theories; The Syncretistic Theory; An Ontological Argument in Favor of the Existence of Fictional Entities

*Metaphysik / Fiktion / Entität

*Fiktion / Objekt / Semantik / Metaphysik

*Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics -- Philosophy

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PN3383.C4

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 808.397;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: CC 4800: CA-CK Philosophie / CC Systematische Philosophie / CC 4600-CC 4800 Sprachphilosophie / Abhandlungen zur Sprachphilosophie

This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The author advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.

This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The fictional entity is constructed by imagining the existence of an individual with certain properties and adding a set-theoretical element consisting of the set of properties corresponding to the properties of the imagined entity. Moreover, the book advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.

 

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