In:The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 7] 2017
► pp. 159–177
Chapter 9The idea that texts are unitary objects
Published online: 26 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.c9
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.c9
Article outline
- The fundamental problem with realism about texts
- The idea that a text is an abstract object
- Levinson on the creation of texts
- Wolterstorff on the physical attributes of abstract objects
- On the realists’ deeper motives for realism about texts
- Wetzel’s principal arguments against eliminativism
- Allegedly non-eliminable references to texts as unitary objects
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