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Empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence

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English
Pages
325

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Cover of: Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
September 25, 2000, Center for the Study of Language and Inf
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Cover of: Empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence
Empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence
2000, CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Inf
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Cover of: Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
June 1, 2000, Center for the Study of Language and Inf
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Table of Contents

Much ado about nothing -- Anthony Everett, Thomas Hofweber
Pleonastic Fregianism and empty names -- Stephen Schiffer
Emptiness without compromise -- Kenneth A. Taylor
Referentialism and empty names -- Anthony Everett
On myth -- Avrom Faderman
Existence as metaphor? -- Kendall Walton
Negative Existentials -- Fred Kroon
Pretense theory and abstract object theory -- Edward N. Zalta
Making up stories -- Harry Deutsch
Real people in unreal contexts -- Stacie Friend
Semantic pretense -- Mark Richard
Quantification and fictional discourse -- Peter van Inwagen
Quantification and non-existent objects -- Thomas Hofweber -- A
paradox of existence-- Stephen Yablo.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.

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Stanford, Calif

Classifications

Library of Congress
B311 .E48 2000, BD311 .E47 2000, B311.E48 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 325 p. :
Number of pages
325

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15500499M
ISBN 10
1575862530, 1575862549
LCCN
00056413
OCLC/WorldCat
44516659
Library Thing
4477011
Goodreads
2448198
862032

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