Much Ado about Nonexistence: Fiction and ReferenceFiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth. |
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Much Ado about Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference Aloysius Martinich,Avrum Stroll Snippet view - 2007 |
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