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 -