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Zalta on Encoding Fictional Properties by Tobias Klauk is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Theories which take fictional objects to be a kind of abstract object are faced with the obvious problem of how to explain the seeming truth of sentences ascribing internal properties. Abstract objects cannot be cynical, be magicians or smoke pipe. Call this the problem of the wrong kind of object. There are a number of well-known strategies which abstractists have employed to evade the problem. In this paper, I discuss whether Edward Zalta's distinction between two kinds of predication, exemplifying and encoding, can help us solve the problem. I start out in section 2 by reviewing the general debate between realists and antirealists concerning fictional objects. Realists think that fictional objects exist, while antirealists deny this. It is however useful to remember that participants in the debate differ in their interpretation of »exists« and »fictional«. Remembering this helps to locate Zalta's account in the realist camp. Section 3 introduces the problem of the wrong kind of object, namely of how we can simultaneously take fictional objects to be abstract objects and understand sentences like »Rick Blaine is cynical« as straightforwardly true. I distinguish five strategies of
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- Author
- Tobias Klauk
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)