TALK ABOUT FICTION |
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| Authors: | Stefano Predelli |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA |
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| Abstract: | I present a novel explanation of the apparent truth of certain remarks about fiction, such as an utterance of 'Salieri commissioned the Requiem' during a discussion of the movie Amadeus. I criticize the traditional view, which alleges that the uttered sentence abbreviates the longer sentence 'it is true in the movie Amadeus that Salieri commissioned the Requiem'. I propose a solution which appeals to some independently motivated results concerning the contexts relevant for the semantic evaluation of indexical expressions. |
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