TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Fictional Reference Rigid?
JF - Organon F
Y1 - 2015
A1 - García-Carpintero, Manuel
KW - fiction
KW - fictional reference
KW - reference
KW - rigid designators
AB - Are ordinary proper names rigid when they occur in fictional discourse? In previous work (García-Carpintero 2010a) I have argued that they are not, at least when we consider the core case of textual fictional discourse, and also the case, dependent on it, of paratextual fictional discourse. From a perspective on such discourse which—on my reading of Koťátko (2004) and (2013)—I understand to be not far away from mine, Petr Koťátko (2010) argues that they are not: “proper names remain rigid designators in Kripke’s sense ... even if transferred from ‘everyday’ communication to literary texts” (op. cit., 94). After explaining how I understand the relevant concepts in the first section, I’ll critically take up Petr’s arguments in the second.
IS - 1
VL - 22
SP - 145-168
UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2015/1/145-168.pdf
U2 - Articles
U3 - 145168
U5 - 1
TI - Is Fictional Reference Rigid?
ER -