Organon F
Volume 28, February 2021, Issue 1, Pages 44–59
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Names and Fictions
Fictional Names: Reference, Definiteness and Ontology
Mark Sainsbury
Definite linguistic expressions, for example proper names and singular and plural pronouns, are easy to introduce. Indefinite expressions may pave the way, but are not essential. It is also not essential that there be entities to which the successfully introduced definites refer. This is the underlying fact that makes fiction possible, and it gives guidance about fictional names: we have no need in general to suppose that there exist entities to which they refer.
Fiction, discourse representation theory, ontology.
Author
Mark Sainsbury 
Affiliation
University of Texas at Austin
Address
Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 2210 Speedway, Stop C3500 WAG 316, Austin, Texas 78712-1737
marksainsbury@austin.utexas.edu
Received
26 February 2020
Accepted
18 June 2020
Published online
28 February 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Sainsbury, M. (2021). Fictional Names: Reference, Definiteness and Ontology. Organon F, 28(1), 44–59. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28103
Chicago
Sainsbury, Mark. 2021. "Fictional Names: Reference, Definiteness and Ontology." Organon F 28 (1): 44–59. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28103
Harvard
Sainsbury, M. (2021). Fictional Names: Reference, Definiteness and Ontology. Organon F, 28(1), pp. 44–59. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28103
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