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R. M. Sainsbury

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199241804

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005

DOI: 10.1093/0199241805.001.0001

Existence and fiction

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(p. 195 ) 6 Existence and fiction
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Reference without Referents
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R. M. Sainsbury (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199241805.003.0006

Shows how well the book’s theory applies to existential statements, providing a very straightforward account of true negative ones. The theory also applies reasonably well to fiction, and the remaining problems are problematic for all theories.

Keywords:   cross-fictional sentences, cross-realm sentences, existence, fiction, fictional character, scope, second-level theories of existence

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