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An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names

In: Organon F, vol. 2022, no. 3
Byeong D. Lee
Detaily:
Rok, strany: 2022, 290 - 326
Jazyk: eng
Kľúčové slová:
Fictional names; inferentialist semantics; the anaphoric theory of reference; Sellars; Brandom.
Typ článku: Research Article
O článku:
The goal of this paper is to present and defend an inferen- tialist account of the meaning of fictional names on the basis of Sellars-Brandom’s inferentialist semantics and a Brandomian anaphoric theory of reference. On this inferentialist account, the meaning of a fictional name is constituted by the relevant language norms which provide the correctness conditions for its use. In addition, the Brandomian anaphoric theory of reference allows us to understand reference in terms of anaphoric word-word relations, rather than substantial word-world relations. In this paper I argue that this inferentialist account has many important merits over its rival theories. One important merit is that it explains why we can use fictional names to make true statements, even if they lack bearers. As a consequence, this theory allows us to use fictional names without committing our- selves to an implausible ontology of fictional entities. Another important merit is that it provides a uniform semantic account of fictional names across different types of statements in which fictional names are involved.
Ako citovať:
ISO 690:
Lee, B. 2022. An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names. In Organon F, vol. 2022, no.3, pp. 290-326. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29301

APA:
Lee, B. (2022). An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names. Organon F, 2022(3), 290-326. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29301
O vydaní:
Vydavateľ: Filozofický ústav SAV, Filosofický ústav AVČR
Publikované: 24. 9. 2022
Verejná licencia:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0)