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Actualisme et fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Jérôme Pelletier
Jérôme Pelletier
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale
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Abstract

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.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , Winter 2000 , pp. 77 - 100
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2000

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