The Nonexistent by Anthony Everett

ISBN: 9780199674794

Oxford University Press 29 August 2013

Hardcover | 272 pages

Anthony Everett gives a philosophical defence of the common‑sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. More precisely he develops a pretense‑theoretic account on which our talk and thought about such fictional objects takes place within the scope of a pretense, and argues that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism, offering a compelling exploration of how we think and speak about imagination and nonexistence. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}