| In Defence of Fictional Realism |
| Benjamin Schnieder, Tatjana von Solodkoff |
| Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2009), 138–49. |
| Area 1 Philosophy of Language |
| Area 2 Metaphysics |
| Keywords fiction; realism; fictional characters |
| http://phloxgroup.wordpress.com/c-papers/abstract-23/ |
| Anthony Everett recently argued that fictional realism (the view that because fictions exist, fictional characters exist as well) leads to inconsistency generated by phenomena of indeterminacy and inconsistency in fiction. We examine in detail his arguments against fictional realism, and present a version of fictional realism which can withstand those arguments. |
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