title: Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Lecture Notes)
author: Anthony Everett
description: Contributions of some of the most important researchers working in empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence. The book contains a comprehensive introductory essay by the editors which provides a survey of the philosophical issues concerning empty names, the various responses to these issues, and the literature to date.
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  _Ever After_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2015 by Deveraux, Inc.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random
  House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  BALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random
  House LLC.
  
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  
  
  Deveraux, Jude.
  
  
  Ever after : a Nantucket brides novel / Jude Deveraux> pages; cm. — (Nantucket
  brides 