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During this ebook, Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge distinguish quite a few species of fictionalism, finding and protecting their very own model of philosophical fictionalism. Addressing semantic and philosophical puzzles that come up from traditional language, they think about such concerns because the challenge of non-being, plural identification claims, mental-attitude ascriptions, that means attributions, and truth-talk. they give thought to 'deflationism approximately truth', explaining why deflationists can be fictionalists, and exhibit how their philosophical fictionalist account of truth-talk underwrites a dissolution of the Liar Paradox and its relations. They additional discover the semantic notions of reference and predicate-satisfaction, displaying how philosophical fictionalism may also unravel puzzles that those notions seem to current. Their severe exam of fictionalist techniques in philosophy, including the improvement and alertness in their personal model of philosophical fictionalism, can be of serious curiosity to students and upper-level scholars of philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical common sense, philosophy of brain, epistemology, and linguistics.
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This assumes that works of fiction can be about real things, rather than only being about unreal things. However, this assumption about fiction is widely accepted. See Kripke (1973/2013), p. 20; Searle (1975), pp. 330–331; Parsons (1980), pp. 57–59; Walton (1990), pp. 354, 397–398; Thomasson (1999), pp. 104–105; Everett (2007), p. 72. Mackie (1977). 6 Philosophical fictionalism and other distinctions 35 (16) Torture is such that, according to the morality fiction, it is morally wrong. which would seem to restore the proper subject to (14), thereby avoiding the Aboutness Problem.
173. See our discussions of Searle (1975), Lewis (1978[1983]), and Walton (1990), below. None of them take fictive discourse to be automatically false, although Searle and Lewis do take it to be not true as a result of it not really being truth-apt. In our modifictation of Walton’s view, we can think of fictive sentences as automatically true. All three theorists take metafictive sentences as equally apt for truth or falsity. Field (1989), p. 2 [emphasis added]. Field goes on to say, “The fictionalist may believe that there is some non-face-value construal of [the relevant] sentences under which they come out true; he or she may even believe that some such construal gives ‘the real meaning of’ the [relevant] sentence, despite its departure from what the .
36. Cf. Burgess (2004), p. 28. 109 The difference pertains to how the required application of the notion of fiction is made by the account in question, and the latter emerges as the particular kind of appeal to the notion of fiction that we prefer. Beyond Rosen’s (or at least Rosen*’s) account of possible-worlds-talk, some other potential examples of prefix-fictionalism include Field on mathematics (Field at least describes a prefix-fictionalism about mathematics without caring whether one adopts it110), Stuart Brock on discourse about fictional characters (involving an implicit prefix such as ‘according to the [fictional] realist’s hypothesis’111), and Mark Balaguer on proposition-talk (that is, ‘that’clause sentences being “true-in-the-story-of-propositions”,112 matching Lewis’s “predicate” variation of a story prefix, quoted above).