Organon F
Volume 28, February 2021, Issue 1, Pages 107–134
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Names and Fictions
Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
Eleonora Orlando
The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual. Given there is no material particular a fictional name could be referring to, it will be construed as referring to the concept of a particular, with which many descriptive concepts are associated, in the context of the set of thoughts constitutive of a fictional narrative. A fictional narrative will be thus characterised as a conceptual world, namely, a set of sentence-types semantically correlated with a set of thought-types.
Fictional name; fictional narrative; fictionalism; fictive, parafictive and metafictive uses; mental file; singular thought.
Author
Eleonora Orlando 
Affiliation
University of Buenos Aires
Address
Bulnes 642 - CP: 1176 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Received
3 March 2020
Accepted
10 November 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
Orlando, E. (2021). Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account. Organon F, 28(1), 107–134. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28106
Chicago
Orlando, Eleonora. 2021. "Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account." Organon F 28 (1): 107–134. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28106
Harvard
Orlando, E. (2021). Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account. Organon F, 28(1), pp. 107–134. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28106
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