%0 Journal Article %J Organon F %D 2015 %T Is Fictional Reference Rigid? %A García-Carpintero, Manuel %K fiction %K fictional reference %K reference %K rigid designators %X 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. %B Organon F %V 22 %P 145-168 %G English %U http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2015/1/145-168.pdf %9 State %2 Articles %3 145168 %# 1