ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses views about names from fiction that are based on what Frege says there. It discusses views on which names from fiction refer to numbers or properties. The chapter discusses the view that names from fiction don’t refer to anything but express senses given by definite descriptions. Gottlob Frege doesn’t discuss stipulationism about names from fiction, but he considers an analogous view about definite descriptions that don’t refer, like ‘the celestial body most distant from the earth’ or ‘the celestial body distinct from the earth’. Frege suggests that the sense of ‘Aristotle’ is descriptive; in particular, he suggests that it’s given by ‘the pupil of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great’ or ‘the teacher of Alexander the Great who was born in Stagira’.
