Sentence examples for as fictional objects from inspiring English sources

We do so when we say, for example, that there are objects, such as fictional objects, that don't exist.

They can of course claim that there are; e.g., they might want to say that, as is the case in mathematics, there are no such things as fictional objects and, because of this, typical fictional sentences are not literally true.

Though not meant to be a fictional object, Vulcan may be given the same treatment as explicitly fictional objects.

Fictional characters belong to the class of entities variously known as fictional entities or fictional objects or ficta, a class that includes not just animate objects of fiction (fictional persons, animals, monsters, and so on) but also inanimate objects of fiction such as fictional places (Anthony Trollope's cathedral town of Barchester and Tolkien's home of the elves, Rivendell, for example).

We shall take note of some other Meinongians later in the section on fictional objects, as their focus is primarily on fiction.

If we assume Lewis's modal realism, then saying as we did that a description has a possible denotation entails an ontological commitment to fictional objects as possibilia.

Such an account of the persistence of fictional objects seems as intuitive as the account of their generation.

Robert Howell criticizes Parsons' theory, among others, and recommends an approach which construes fictional objects as non-actual objects in fictional worlds, where fictional worlds include not just possible but impossible worlds (Howell 1979).

There is a variety of things that are commonly referred to as models: physical objects, fictional objects, set-theoretic structures, descriptions, equations, or combinations of some of these.

For the view that the pretense theory is compatible with a theory of fictional objects as real objects, see Zalta 2000.

To see the tension between these conceptions, note that we often speak of fictional objects as the creations of story-tellers or of the human mind more generally.