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Mistake is to Myth What Pretense is to Fiction: A Reply to Goodman
1Department of Philosophy and History, Division of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 32, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
In this reply I defend Kripke's creationist thesis for mythical objects (Reference and Existence, 2013) against Jeffrey Goodman's counter-argument to the thesis ("Creatures of fiction, objects of myth", Analysis, 74(1), 35-40, 2014). I argue that Goodman has mistaken the basis for when mythical abstracta are created. Contrary to Goodman I show that, as well as how, Kripke's theory consistently retains the analogy between creation of mythical objects and creation of fictional objects, while also explaining in what way they differ.
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