INDIVIDUALITY IN FICTION AND THE CREATIVE ROLE OF THE READER
Résumé
The main aim of the paper is to offer a solution compatible with Graham Priest’s
Noneism and Amie Thomasson’s Artifactual theory which stresses the epistemic features of
the notion of individuality in fiction in a framework where individuals are conceived of as
functions (the framework is known as the world-lines-semantics of Hintikka). According to
our view, it is the endorsement of a reader’s perspective that extends the range of the values
of the functions (individuals) and that offers an alternative solution to cases of identity inside
and outside the scope of a fictionality (or representation) operator. More technically, this
proposal can be seen as both extending the notion of individuality of the Artifactual theory
and furnishing an epistemic twist to Priest’s principle of freedom.
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