Extended Essays: Fictional Entities

Amie L. Thomasson

doi:10.1002/9781444308525.ch1

Extended Essays: Fictional Entities

Amie L. Thomasson

Philosophy

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Companion to Metaphysics
Subtitle of host publication	Second Edition
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons
Pages	10-18
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781405152983
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch1
State	Published - Apr 9 2009

Keywords

Extended essays
Fictional entities
Individuation
Metaphysically salient sense of term "substance"-substance an individual thing
Realism and antirealism about abstract entities
mind/body problem-Reinhardt Grossmann calling the mind "the great garbage bin of Ontology"
modality and possible worlds-propositions evaluated not only as true or false, but as necessarily or contingently true or false
persistence-things changing, metaphysical and observational datum
space and time-absolute or relative

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Arts and Humanities(all)

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Thomasson, A. L. (2009). Extended Essays: Fictional Entities. In A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition (pp. 10-18). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch1

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