Sense-only-signs: Frege on fictional proper names

Grazer Philosophische Studien 82 (1):375-400 (2011)
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I explore Frege's thesis that fictional proper names are supposed to have only sense and no reference. How can one make this thesis compatible with Frege's view that sense determines reference? By holding that fictional proper names are introduced in a particular kind of speech act. Or so I argue.

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