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Fiction and the causal theory of names

Poetics, 1979
Abstract The paper discusses the causal theory of names and its impact on the theory of fiction. It is claimed that the causal theory of names has a structural and a historical component. Names of fictional beings are structurally alike to usual proper names.
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Description, Disagreement, and Fictional Names

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2011
In this paper, a theory of the contents of fictional names — names of fictional people, places, etc. — will be developed. The fundamental datum that must be addressed by such a theory is that fictional names are, in an important sense, empty: the entities to which they putatively refer do not exist.
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Hostelries with names from fiction

Notes and Queries, 1937
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Critical Pragmatics on Fictional Names. Some Problems Concerning Network Content

Topoi, 2023
Eleonora Orlando
exaly  

Currie on Fictional Names

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1990
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Two-Dimensional Semantics and Fictional Names: The Myth of Intension

Philosophia (United States), 2021
Seong Soo Park
exaly  

Fictional names

Philosophical Studies, 1977
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Co‐Identification and Fictional Names

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2020
Manuel García-Carpintero
exaly  

Fictionalism About Fictional Names

Philosophical Inquiry, 2014
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Names in Fiction

Theoretical Linguistics, 2017
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