Abstract

Fictional realists hold that we should accept fictional objects into our ontology. They offer three sorts of arguments in support of their view: semantic arguments, inferential arguments, and metaphysical arguments. However, these arguments fail. The pretense-theoretic account of fictional character discourse developed earlier can account for the data invoked by the semantic arguments without our needing to posit fictional objects. The inferential arguments ultimately presuppose the correctness of the semantic arguments. And two metaphysical arguments recently offered by Voltolini and Thomasson also fail.

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