TALK ABOUT FICTION

Author: PREDELLI S.

Source: Erkenntnis, Volume 46, Number 1, January 1997 , pp. 69-77(19)

Publisher: Springer

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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.

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

Publication date: 1997-01-01