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• W2294049266 abstract "In this dissertation, I present an account oftruths expressed within, as well as about, literary fictions. Toachieve this goal, I first give a semantic account of Englishsentences that include fictional characters’ names. I then providea metaphysical analysis of English sentences of the form,‘According to X, S’, where X is a name of a work of fiction, f, andS stands for an English sentence. My account not only clears awaysome philosophical confusions regarding literary fiction but alsogives us insight into the nature of the activities of creating,discussing, entertaining and appreciating literary fictions. As asemantic account of English sentences that include fictionalcharacters’ names, I advocate the Fictional Name Theory. It statesthat many names appearing in fiction are proper names of fictionalcharacters. Fictional characters are abstract entities, theexistence of which depends on the creative activities of humanauthors and the responses of those who engage with their fictions.Together with the Millian assumption (the semantic content of aproper name is its referent) and the Russellian assumption (thesemantic content of a sentence is a structure composed of thesemantic contents of the sentence’s parts) my view entails that thesemantic content of ‘Harry Potter is a wizard’ is a structurecomposed of Harry Potter (the fictional character) and the semanticcontent of ‘is a wizard’. I claim that ‘According X, S’ is apropositional relational property ascription. It indirectlyascribes a relation to the content of X and the content of S.‘According to X’ expresses a property, and a sentence of the form‘According to X, S’ ascribes this property to the proposition pexpressed by S. But the ascribed property is a relational property.p has the property expressed by ‘according to X’ in virtue ofstanding in the according-to relation to the content of X. Forthe metaphysical analysis of ‘According to X, S’, I suggest theImagination View: an English sentence of the form ‘According to X,S ‘, where X is a name of a work of fiction f and S stands for anEnglish sentence, is true if and only if there is a proposition pand a fiction f such that: (i) S expresses p, (ii) X denotes f and(iii) f prescribes imagining p to those who entertain f. Whether awork of fiction, f, prescribes imagining p to those who entertainit is determined by following three factors: (a) the semanticcontent of a relevant sentence (in this case, p) (b) the semanticcontents of other parts of the work and (c) the linguistic andliterary practices in the community of the intended readers of thework. One apparent problem that the Fictional Name Theory facesis that the view entails that ‘Harry Potter is a wizard’ is false,whereas ordinary people who entertain the Harry Potter storiesthink that it is true. My answer is that the semantic content ofthe given sentence is not totally transparent to ordinary users ofEnglish, and thus their view is mistaken. By contrast, mostordinary people’s judgments about the truth-values of…" @default.
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• W2294049266 title "Truth in and about Fiction" @default.
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