Fiction

impossible!

Martin Vacek

pp. 247-252

in: Axiomathes 28 (2), 2018.

Abstract

I argue that modal realism is unable to account for fictional discourse. My starting point is an overview of modal realism. I then present a dilemma for modal realism regarding fictional characters. Finally, I provide responses to both horns of the dilemma, one motivating modal dimensionalism, the other motivating a disjunctive analysis of modality.