| 目录 |
| | Preface | ix |
| 1. | Philosophical fictionalism | 1 |
| 1.1. | Two species of fictionalism | 1 |
| 1.2. | Some important aspects of fiction (or, a minor foray into philosophy of fiction) | 5 |
| 1.3. | Concerns with comparative fictionalism qua fictionalism | 8 |
| 1.4. | The central tenets of fictionalism | 11 |
| 1.5. | From comparative fictionalism to philosophical fictionalism | 18 |
| 1.6. | Philosophical fictionalism and other distinctions within fictionalism | 30 |
| 2. | Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk | 39 |
| 2.1. | Make-believe, representational aids, and partially pretend claims | 39 |
| 2.2. | Language-world connections, long-arm conceptual roles, and M-conditions | 44 |
| 2.3. | Types of pretense in partially pretend claims | 50 |
| 2.4. | Pragmatic PIF and its problems | 55 |
| 2.5. | Prior SPIF accounts and the Engagement Complaints | 60 |
| 2.6. | Our SPIF account of existence-talk | 64 |
| 3. | Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk | 77 |
| 3.1. | Propositions and proposition-talk | 77 |
| 3.2. | Benacerraf's challenges as problems for propositions | 79 |
| 3.3. | Our SPIF account of proposition-talk | 84 |
| 3.4. | Our SPIF account of proposition-talk and Benacerraf's challenges | 113 |
| 4. | T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk | 116 |
| 4.1. | Understanding T-deflationism | 116 |
| 4.2. | From mathematical fictionalism to truth-theoretic fictionalism | 119 |
| 4.3. | Our SPIF account of truth-talk | 130 |
| 4.4. | Conclusions for truth-talk | 150 |
| 5. | Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent alethic pathologies | 152 |
| 5.1. | Unearthing (apparent) semantic pathology | 152 |
| 5.2. | Pretense and meaninglessness | 154 |
| 5.3. | Meaninglessness and understanding | 157 |
| 5.4. | Meaninglessness, generalization, and denial | 161 |
| 5.5. | Semantic characterization and s-defectiveness | 163 |
| 5.6. | S-Defectiveness and liar sentences | 165 |
| 5.7. | Replies to further potential revenge concerns | 168 |
| 5.8. | Extended apparent alethic pathology | 180 |
| 5.9. | Diagnosing and treating extended apparent alethic pathology | 187 |
| 5.10. | Closing remarks | 190 |
| 6. | SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology | 193 |
| 6.1. | Our SPIF account of reference/denotation-talk | 193 |
| 6.2. | Our SPIF account of predicate-satisfaction-talk | 202 |
| 6.3. | Apparent non-alethic semantic pathology revealed | 205 |
| 6.4. | Diagnosing and treating apparent non-alethic semantic pathology | 210 |
| 6.5. | Conclusions for reference/denotation-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk | 222 |
| 7. | Extensions and objections | 224 |
| 7.1. | Plural identity-talk | 224 |
| 7.2. | M-conditions-talk | 241 |
| 7.3. | Circularity worries and putative restrictions on fictionalism | 244 |
| 7.4. | A challenge to our dissolution of apparent semantic pathology | 251 |
| 7.5. | Concluding remarks | 258 |
| | Bibliography | 259 |
| | Index | 267 |
