Extended Essays

Fictional Entities

Amie Thomasson

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationA Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages10-18
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781405152983
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 9 2009

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Keywords

  • Extended essays
  • Fictional entities
  • Individuation
  • Metaphysically salient sense of term "substance"-substance an individual thing
  • 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
  • Realism and antirealism about abstract entities
  • space and time-absolute or relative

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  • Arts and Humanities(all)

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Thomasson, A. (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

Extended Essays : Fictional Entities. / Thomasson, Amie.

A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. p. 10-18.

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