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" Fiction and Metaphysics / "
Amie L. Thomasson.
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BL
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1016845
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b771215
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| Main Entry
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Thomasson, Amie L.
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Fiction and Metaphysics /\ Amie L. Thomasson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 1998.
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Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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1 online resource (188 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511527462
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: 0521640806
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: 9780511527463
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: 9780521640800
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| Notes
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Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011).
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| Abstract
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This challenging study places fiction squarely at the centre of the discussion of metaphysics. Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a set of narrow problems in logic or the philosophy of language. By contrast Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics. The book develops an 'artifactual' theory of fiction, whereby fictional characters are abstract artifacts as ordinary as laws or symphonies or works of literature. By understanding fictional characters we come to understand how other cultural and social objects are established on the basis of the independent physical world and the mental states of human beings.
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Fictions, Theory of.
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Metaphysics.
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Fictions, Theory of.
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Metaphysics.
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| Dewey Classification
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111
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BC199.F5 -- T48 1999eb
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