In this paper, I want to show that a reasonable thesis on truth in fiction, Fictional Vichianism (FV) – according to which fictional truths are true because they are stipulated to be true – can be positively endorsed if one grounds Kripke’s justification for (FV), that traces back to the idea that names used in fiction never refer to concrete real individuals, into a creationist position on fictional entities that allows for a distinction between the pretending and the characterizing use of fiction-involving sentences. Thus, sticking to (FV) provides a reason for a metaphysically moderate ontological realism on fictional entities.
How Creationism Supports for Kripke’s Vichianism on Fiction