 Gregory Currie denies that fictional names like ‘Sherlock Holmes’ are proper names or even singular terms (Currie 1990). He claims that sentences of fiction in which ‘Sherlock Holmes’ occurs should be regarded as jointly forming a long conjunction in which every occurrence of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is replaced with a variable bound by an initial existential quantifier in the way suggested by Frank Ramsey (Ramsey 1931).