| The Truth Value of Statements Containing Names of Literary Characters as Subjects (2551 words) |
 | Stern argues that sentences containing the names of fictional characters are neither true nor false when they are used by the author, as literary sentences are neither asserted nor believed to be true (or false), but merely employed to describe and give information pertaining to the imaginary world created by the author. |
| If this type of presupposition is true, then the truth value of statements containing names of fictional entities can be judged in terms of the connection between the presupposition and the content of the actual utterance. |
| One possible objection to this is the instance of a speaker uttering a statement containing the name of a fictional entity and either not knowing which work the character is from or, in an extreme case, not knowing that the statement contains the name of a fictional character. |
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