Quantifiers frequently figure in works of fiction. But occurrences of quantificational expressions within fictions seem no more inevitably to be associated with real domains than uses of names within fictions seem inevitably to be associated with existing referents. The paper outlines some philosophical puzzles resulting from this apparent lack of associated domains, puzzles that are broadly analogous to more familiar ones raised by the apparently nonreferential nature of many fictional names. The paper argues, in the light of an important disanalogy between quantifiers and names, that the quantificational puzzles are substantive, in that they cannot be resolved merely by appealing to the possibility of empty domains. It then argues that, despite the cited parallels between occurrences of quantifiers and names within fictions, promising treatments of fictional names do not always straightforwardly generalise to provide accounts of the quantificational phenomena: the quantificational puzzles are therefore not only substantive but also distinctive. The paper provides further testament to the depth and interest of the problems involving content that are generated by fiction, by identifying a very wide range of previously neglected cases, while also helping to situate within a broader context the notoriously hard philosophical challenges posed by fictional names.

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虚构领域

量词经常出现在小说作品中。但是小说中出现的量化表达式似乎并不不可避免地与真实领域相关联，正如小说中名称的使用似乎不可避免地与现有的指称相关联一样。该论文概述了由于明显缺乏相关领域而导致的一些哲学难题，这些难题与许多虚构名称的明显非指称性质所引发的更熟悉的难题大致相似。鉴于量词和名称之间的重要矛盾，该论文认为，量化难题是实质性的，因为它们不能仅仅通过诉诸空域的可能性来解决。然后它争辩说，尽管在小说中出现的量词和名字之间存在相似之处，对虚构名称的有前途的处理并不总是直接概括以提供对量化现象的解释：因此，量化难题不仅是实质性的，而且是独特的。该论文通过确定范围广泛的先前被忽视的案例，进一步证明了涉及虚构内容的问题的深度和趣味性，同时还有助于在更广泛的背景下定位虚构名称所带来的众所周知的艰巨哲学挑战.