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Fictional Characters and Characterisations.

Realists about fictional characters posit a certain theoretical role and a candidate to fill this role. I will delineate the role realists take fictional characters like Emma Woodhouse to fill, and I will argue that it is better filled by what I will call 'characterisations'. In explaining what I me...

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Published in:Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 348 - 368
Main Author: Connolly, Niall
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2023
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