(F9): Frick and Frack have been seen in different places at different times. (F10): Some claim that when Frick and Frack have been seen in different places at different times, it was a hoax. (F11): Frick has been seen changing his clothes and wig to take on Frack’s appearance. (F12): Frick and Frack share some odd similarities. (F13) Frick and Frack share some striking differences. There are two salient fragments, subsets of this set. X is the subset that is composed of propositions (F7)-(F13) and (F1)-(F3), and thus depicts a determinate state of affairs in which Frick is identical to Frack, where A is the character thus depicted. Y is the subset consisting of propositions (F7)-(F13) and (F4)-(F6), and thus depicts a determinate state of affairs in which Frick and Frack are numerically distinct, where B and C are respectively the depicted characters. But the account of must differ in some respect from the account of to Frackworld Bah-Tale 2 capture the difference between fictions depicting explicitly indeterminate identities and those depicting underdetermined identities. That difference need not be located in a difference in the ontology of created objects; it can be accounted for instead as a difference in what constitutes a sanctioned interpretation of the fiction in question. A reader who interpreted as representing exactly the state of affairs Bah-Tale 2 represented by X would be misinterpreting The author has presented in Bah-Tale 2. Bah-Tale 2 such a way that the only sanctioned interpretation of the is to take author’s creative endeavors truth-in-Bah-Tale-2 to be determined by supervaluating over the states of affairs represented by X and Y. In a case like however, competing interpretations of the story have not Frackworld, been ruled out. Here, one might say that it is semantically indeterminate whether ‘Frackworld’ refers to X or Y; the author has created both X and Y, each of which might be deemed a sanctioned interpretation of the story, and it is indeterminate which of these two objects is designated by the title ‘Frackworld’.
(F9): Frick and Frack have been seen in different places at different times. (F10): Some claim that when Frick and Frack have been seen in different places at different times, it was a hoax. (F11): Frick has been seen changing his clothes and wig to take on Frack’s appearance. (F12): Frick and Frack share some odd similarities. (F13) Frick and Frack share some striking differences. There are two salient fragments, subsets of this set. X is the subset that is composed of propositions (F7)-(F13) and (F1)-(F3), and thus depicts a determinate state of affairs in which Frick is identical to Frack, where A is the character thus depicted. Y is the subset consisting of propositions (F7)-(F13) and (F4)-(F6), and thus depicts a determinate state of affairs in which Frick and Frack are numerically distinct, where B and C are respectively the depicted characters. But the account of Frackworld must differ in some respect from the account of Bah-Tale 2 to capture the difference between fictions depicting explicitly indeterminate identities and those depicting underdetermined identities. That difference need not be located in a difference in the ontology of created objects; it can be accounted for instead as a difference in what constitutes a sanctioned interpretation of the fiction in question. A reader who interpreted Bah-Tale 2 as representing exactly the state of affairs represented by X would be misinterpreting Bah-Tale 2. The author has presented Bah-Tale 2 in such a way that the only sanctioned interpretation of the author’s creative endeavors is to take truth-in-Bah-Tale-2 to be determined by supervaluating over the states of affairs represented by X and Y. In a case like Frackworld, however, competing interpretations of the story have not been ruled out. Here, one might say that it is semantically indeterminate whether ‘Frackworld’ refers to X or Y; the author has created both X and Y, each of which might be deemed a sanctioned interpretation of the story, and it is indeterminate which of these two objects is designated by the title ‘Frackworld’.
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