TY  - BOOK
AU  - Voltolini,Alberto
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - How Ficta Follow Fiction: A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities 
T2  - Philosophical Studies Series
SN  - 9781402051470
U1  - 110 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL)
KW  - METAPHYSICS
KW  - ONTOLOGY
KW  - LINGUISTICS
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
N1  - The Metaphysical Side -- The Committal Theories (I) -- The Committal Theories (II) -- The Syncretistic Theory -- Further Developments of the Syncretistic Theory -- The Semantic Side -- The Noncommittal Theories -- The Syncretistic Theory -- The Ontological Side -- An Ontological Argument in Favor of the Existence of Fictional Entities
N2  - This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set theoretical element. The fictional entity is constructed by imagining the existence of an individual with certain properties and adding a set-theoretical element consisting of the set of properties corresponding to the properties of the imagined entity. Moreover, the book advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5147-6
ER  -