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Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence
CSLI, 2000 Paper: 978-1-57586-254-5 | Cloth: 978-1-57586-253-8 | eISBN: 978-1-57586-790-8 Library of Congress Classification BD311.E47 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 111
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Philosophers and theorists have long been puzzled by humans' ability to talk about things that do not exist, or to talk about things that they think exist but, in fact, do not. Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence is a collection of 13 new works concerning the semantic and metaphysical issues arising from empty names, non-existence, and the nature of fiction. The contributors include some of the most important researchers working in these fields. Some of the papers develop and defend new positions on these matters, while others offer important new perspectives and criticisms of the existing approaches. The volume contains a comprehensive introductory essay by the editors, which provides a survey of the philosophical issues concerning empty names, the various responses to these issues, and the literature on the subject to date. See other books on: Linguistics | Metaphysics | Ontology | Puzzles | Semantics See other titles from CSLI |
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Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
CSLI, 2000
Paper: 978-1-57586-254-5
Cloth: 978-1-57586-253-8
eISBN: 978-1-57586-790-8
Paper: 978-1-57586-254-5
Cloth: 978-1-57586-253-8
eISBN: 978-1-57586-790-8
Philosophers and theorists have long been puzzled by humans' ability to talk about things that do not exist, or to talk about things that they think exist but, in fact, do not. Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence is a collection of 13 new works concerning the semantic and metaphysical issues arising from empty names, non-existence, and the nature of fiction. The contributors include some of the most important researchers working in these fields. Some of the papers develop and defend new positions on these matters, while others offer important new perspectives and criticisms of the existing approaches. The volume contains a comprehensive introductory essay by the editors, which provides a survey of the philosophical issues concerning empty names, the various responses to these issues, and the literature on the subject to date.
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