Pleonastic entities: Fictional characters and propositions
Philosophical Investigations 32 (1):65-78 (2009)
| Abstract | Stephen Schiffer holds that propositions are pleonastic entities. I will argue that there is a substantial difference between propositions and fictional characters, which Schiffer presents as typical pleonastic entities. My conclusion will be that if fictional characters are typical pleonastic entities, then Schiffer fails to show that propositions are pleonastic entities. | |||||||||
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