Unreality : : The Metaphysics of Fictional Objects / / Charles Crittenden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Crittenden, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; I. REFERENCE AND NONEXISTENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY --; 2. REFERENCE AND FICTION --; 3. THE UNREALITY OF FICTIONS --; 4. FICTIONAL DISCOURSE --; 5. ALTERNATIVE REFERENTIAL THEORIES OF FICTION --; 6. REAL THINGS IN FICTION, LOGICAL COMPLETENESS, AND OTHER FORMS OF REPRESENTATION --; 7. IS EVERYTHING FICTITIOUS? Is --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733871; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733871
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Crittenden.

Charles Crittenden here offers an original solution to one of the traditional dilemmas of philosophy—whether there can be any thing not existing, since to say that some thing does not exist seems to presuppose its existence. Drawing on the tools of Wittgensteinian philosophy and speech act theory, Crittenden argues that we can and often do make reference to unreal objects such as fictional characters, though they do not exist in any sense at all.