Actualisme et fiction

Bibliographic Data

ID9686687
AuthorsJérôme Pelletier (0000-0002-2411-3005, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume39
Issue1
Pages77-100
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217300006405
OpenAlexW2081643787
LanguageEN
References cited21

The non-existence of fictional entities does not seem incompatible with their possible existence. The aim of this paper is to give an account of the intuitive truth of statements of possible existence involving fictional proper names in an actualist framework. After having made clear the opposition between a possibilist and an actualist approach of possible worlds, I distinguish between fictional individuals and fictional characters and between the fictional use of fictional proper names and their metafictional use. On that basis, statements of possible existence involving fictional proper names appear to say of fictional characters conceived as abstact objects that they might have been exemplified

Art · Detective fiction · Epistemology · Fictional universe · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics) · Possible world · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science

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