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467'Of course there are fictional characters'Revue Internationale de Philosophie 262 (4): 615-40. 2012.There is no straightforward inference from there being fictional characters to any interesting form of realism. One reason is that “fictional” may be an intensional operator with wide scope, depriving the quantifier of its usual force. Another is that not all uses of “there are” are ontologically committing. A realist needs to show that neither of these phenomena are present in “There are fictional characters”. Other roads to realism run into difficulties when negotiating the role that presuppos…Read more
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English speakers should use "I" to refer to themselvesIn Anthony Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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