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Looking for Smaug and the golden mountain
Leclercq, Bruno
2018In Van Kerkhove, Bart; François, Karen; Ducheyne, Steffen et al. (Eds.) Laat ons niet ernstig blijven, Huldeboek voor Jean Paul Van Bendegem
 

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Keywords :
fiction; meinongian logic; modal logic; intensional object; object; concept; logique meinongienne; logique modale; objet intensionnel; objet
Abstract :
[en] The neat distinction between objects and concepts which prevails in standard extensional logic seems to be challenged by inexistent objects. Yet modal logics and Meinongian logics offer two very different non-extensional ways of dealing with such objects. While the former somehow stick to the object-concept distinction, the latter overcome it in such a way that objects come to get most of the main features which standardly characterise concepts. Now, just like non-fictional discourse requires distinguishing between a de re and a de dicto reading of some linguistic expressions, (naïve reading of) fiction requires distinguishing between a de altero mundo and a de dicto reading of expressions. And this pleads for the preservation for the object-concept distinction even for fiction. This is why modal logics provide a better tool for a general theory of reference that accounts both for fictional and non-fictional discourse
Research center :
MéThéor - Métaphysique et Théorie de la Connaissance - ULiège
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Leclercq, Bruno  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de philosophie > Philosophie analytique et de la logique
Language :
English
Title :
Looking for Smaug and the golden mountain
Alternative titles :
[fr] A la recherche de Smaug et de la montagne d'or
Publication date :
2018
Main work title :
Laat ons niet ernstig blijven, Huldeboek voor Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Main work alternative title :
[fr] Ne restons pas sérieux, Ouvrage d'hommage à Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Editor :
Van Kerkhove, Bart
François, Karen
Ducheyne, Steffen
Allo, Patrick
Publisher :
Academia Press
Pages :
327-335
Name of the research project :
Transparence cognitive des contenus sémantiques et détermination pragmatique des référents
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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