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Much Ado about Nonexistence
Fiction and Reference
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2007
Summary
The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities. In Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence, A. P. Martinich and Avrum 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. Included in the discussion is the authors' new, contemporary theory of fiction developed as an extension of the speech act theory of H. P. Grice, as well as the relationship between nonexistence and Bertrand Russell's well-known theory of definite descriptions, and Hilary Putnam's theory of the relationship between common names and the world.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4833-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4022-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
149
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1 A Theory of Fiction No access
Chapter 2 Pretense and Fiction No access
Chapter 3 History and Fiction No access
Chapter 4 Reference and Fiction Again No access
Chapter 5 Direct Reference Theories and Natural Kinds No access
