They can also be manipulated by their makers as if they exist as real objects.
Tranquil introspection was the method, as when in the fifth century St Augustine asked how it was that the mind could encompass vast regions of space and time, imaginary as well as real objects, or the idea of God.
For the view that the pretense theory is compatible with a theory of fictional objects as real objects, see Zalta 2000.
According to this pretense theory, the pretense involved in the language game of fictional discourse shields the whole language game from a separate language game aimed at non-fictional reality, and it is in the latter language game that we seek theories of objects of various kinds as real objects.
In the case of visual hallucinations, top down attentional processes are defective, and therefore, patients aberrantly recognize incorrect proto-objects as real objects.
Our data therefore support a role for this region in processing both visual and tactile information about objects, show that it is activated during cross-modal as well as unimodal matching, and confirm the findings of James et al. (2002) that this region can be activated by meaningless as well as real objects.
Lewis, who accepts the universality of mereological summation, does not deny that possible objects in this sense are as real as possible objects in his preferred sense.
A buckled bunk bed is swathed under a gold-plated mosquito net in Steve McQueen's Weight, as much an apparition of a frowzy and squalidly magnificent bridal bed as a real object.
It consists in giving confident presence to sculpture as a real object set loose in the real world.
Art is the conjuring of ideas and emotions, and the touchstone for their reality is far more elusive than for scientific propositions — but these ideas and emotions are nonetheless as real as the objects that are photographed or represented or described in order to evoke them.
