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Signifying Nothing
Luke Andrew Manning
其他書名
How Fiction Represents
出版University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
ISBN12672946719781267294678
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bvqHAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Kendall Walton uses that to sketch a better answer: works generate fictional objects by guiding us to imaginatively simulate de re mental representation. I develop this in terms of the psychology of mental simulation and de re representation, and argue it is superior to other accounts. Second, do such works that generate fictional objects also represent them? In general, do representations apparently about fictional objects really represent them? Surprisingly, some theorists accept fictional objects but deny they are represented in many cases. I reconstruct and criticize their arguments, concluding that they have not yet found an obstacle to such representation. Third, Peter Geach raises a puzzle: analyze the sentence 'Hob thinks a witch has blighted Bob's mare, and Nob wonders whether she (the same witch) killed Cob's sow' as true even if there are no witches.