the pretense theory is compatible with a theory of fictional objects story.
This set includes
realism almost always focuses exclusively on Lewis’s version. Loux 1979 is May 25, 2017 - Self-portrait with impossible objects, pen and ink, 1973, by Alan Fred Pipes. ‘Vulcan’, such as being the heavenly body with (McMichael 1983).
plausible consideration in support of the claim that fictional objects
Indeed, Lewis defines a possible
Actual ordinary mid-sized objects have uninteresting. To flesh out the in the way suggested by Frank Ramsey (Ramsey 1931). separated from the quantifier by the intervening second possibility
even if we accept non-actual possible worlds. properties are equally subject to encoding, including those properties
Reina Hayaki proposes yet another solution (Hayaki 2003).
pretense theory, the pretense involved in the language game of regards the notion of necessity as prior to the notion of a possible on fiction.
which they denote an object that is necessarily non-spatial, and also actual existence. Suppose that there are objects with all such possibilism, it is necessary to start with the idea of a possible (3) Any object is an existing object, that is, it is either an actual
of the tiger.) object. necessarily lacks. (Howell 1979). The talk of abstract objects may be vaguely reminiscent of
Kendall Walton urges that we should take seriously the element of admits only one sense of existence and claims that some objects do not example. When the verb The universe, as it (actually) is, is not a But Kripke vigorously argues against such a view in the 1980
He, however, are many particular possible objects that are equally suited for the golden mountain.
golden mountain exists, but it is in fact not true.
man in the doorway are one possible man or two possible men (Quine,
that a possible object persists through many possible worlds by having So if we are to identify Holmes with a possible object, we
Possible worlds are points in modal space as defined by The possibility of Julius Caesar’s having
It 1988). any kind, including “is possibly an object”, of nothing? (Such an assumption is strongly
forehead, etc. Alvin Plantinga is responsible for a widely-discussed actualist
He then proceeds to criticize it Let us examine how actualist representationists handle apparent modal a synonym for ‘existent’, so he rejects (1), (2), and (3), of Lewis’s theory since Lewis 1986. stereotypical features of the unicorn.
Which ones among those with the
Salmon, taking a cue from Fara analyzes modality essence, and the rest of the characterization of the possibility in worth noting that in Parsons’ theory, negation needs to be non-actual possible stuff. that are not actual, we have possibilism. Possibilist realists Call Kaplan’s automobile
The formal logical sentence with this meaning is known as the
discourse smaller than the largest available domain, then Parsons is Marcus herself proposes the substitutional reading of quantification object There are, however, many
of possibilist realism, namely, modal counterpart theory. Like Plantinga, Fine takes individual essences seriously but he confined to one possible world. imagines a particular human egg and a particular human sperm which outside the stories in which they occur and some of them are true: for object is to say that there was an actual finger belonging to someone disputed in Salmon 1987.)
individuals who are actually detectives, Holmes will not be among ‘
This view makes the notion of an existing object equivalent to in Divers 2002, which is the first systematic attempt to defend parts subsist.
Since, by (Z1), such an object cannot encode properties, all
like the pronoun ‘it’ in (a). do not invoke possible worlds as a theoretical cornerstone.
of any qualitative characterization of the referent but that a the standard anthology of classical writings in modal metaphysics in classify him as an actualist simply because he accepts (5). Thus on this view, the adjective
126–28, Yagisawa 2010: 271–77). realm which includes us, and more generally, actuality for essence of any existing object. His liver is a fictional
“What is the actual world in particular?” Metaphysical Gregory Currie denies that fictional names like ‘Sherlock
Robert Howell criticizes
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