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Product Description: What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else...read more
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9781137263285 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 3, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: What is depiction?
Product Description: In ontology, realism and anti-realism may be taken as opposite attitudes towards entities of different kinds, so that one may turn out to be a realist with respect to certain entities and an anti-realist with respect to others. In this book, we focus on this controversy for what concerns social entities in general and fictional entities in particular, these last being often considered nowadays as a kind of social entities...read more
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9781443842204 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: In ontology, realism and anti-realism may be taken as opposite attitudes towards entities of different kinds, so that one may turn out to be a realist with respect to certain entities and an anti-realist with respect to others.
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9780230219410 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Leading scholars discuss whether some of the main tenets or theses that are currently or traditionally ascribed to Wittgenstein are still both theoretically and exegetically viable, by focusing on three well-established Wittgensteinian themes: mind, meaning, and metaphilosophy.
Product Description: This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element...read more
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9781402051463 | Springer Verlag, October 15, 2006, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors.
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9789048172955 | Springer Verlag, October 15, 2006, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors.
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