The meaning of fictional names
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Robert M. Martin; Peter K. Schotch
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Article
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1974
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Most analyses of proper names, and of sentences in which proper names occur as logical subject, would have it that something is amiss when a proper-name-like term fails to refer to anything. Suppose that Smith says to us: (1) Arthur Jones has brown hair. and, since we don't know of anyone named A