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Much Ado About Nothing: Critical Realism Examined

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Critical realism is the view that fictional characters arecontingent, actual, abstract individuals, ontologically on a par with such things as plots and rhyme schemes, andquantified over in statements such as “A character inHamlet is a prince.” A strong contender for thecorrect account of fictional characters, critical realismnevertheless has difficulty satisfying all that we intuitivelyrequire of such an account.

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Hanley, R. Much Ado About Nothing: Critical Realism Examined. Philosophical Studies 115, 123–147 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025093302392

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