How Ficta Follow Fiction A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities /

• Main Author: Voltolini, Alberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series ; 105
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Language.

This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-bel...

Table of Contents:

• The Metaphysical Side
• The Committal Theories (I)
• The Committal Theories (II)
• The Syncretistic Theory
• Further Developments of the Syncretistic Theory
• The Semantic Side
• The Noncommittal Theories
• The Syncretistic Theory
• The Ontological Side
• An Ontological Argument in Favor of the Existence of Fictional Entities.