Sentence examples for as fictional names from inspiring English sources

One response to this objection as far as fictional names like "Apollo", "Holmes", etc., are concerned is to reject descriptivism about ordinary names but endorse it for fictional names (see, for example, Currie (1990 158 62).

Some novels-as-biography, using fictional names, are designed to evoke rather than re-create an actual life, such as W. Somerset Maugham's Moon and Sixpence (Gauguin) and Cakes and Ale (Thomas Hardy and Robert Penn Warrenn's All the King's Men (Huey Long).

The creative advisors explained the importance of names and using drinks as examples illustrated fictional names such as Coco-Cola and Pepsi, functional names such as Vitamin Water or emotional names like Sunny Delight and Tropicana designed to associate the name with sunshine and happiness.

We all got fictional names.

(They bear no responsibility for the fictional names).

They remain as fictional as the Andersons' puppet shows.

Eventually he told the story under fictional names in his autobiographical novel, Vanity of Duluoz.

For another, sentences with fictional names are always ontologically committing.

Gregory Currie denies that fictional names like 'Sherlock Holmes' are proper names or even singular terms (Currie 1990).

Frege (1892) is often taken to be the first champion of fictional antirealism within analytic philosophy, in so far as he held that in direct (gerade) contexts such as "Odysseus came ashore" a fictional name has a sense but no reference.

Ken writes about Pete, with the fictional name Coe, as the "man with the miniature orchestra," aptly describing his melancholy: "[He] thought it might've been living in the country that was making him cry.