Fictional Reports
Theoria 25 (2):175-185 (2010)
| Abstract | Against standard descriptivist and referentialist semantics for fictional reports, I will defend a view according to which fictional names do not refer yet they can be distinguished from one another by virtue of their different name-using practices. The logical structures of sentences containing fictional names inherit these distinctions. Different interpretations follow | |||||||||
| Keywords | fictional reports fictional names sententialism interpreted logical forms gappy propositions name-using practices | |||||||||
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