Sentence examples for characters do not exist from inspiring English sources
Meinongians most notably Parsons, Zalta and Rapaport believe that fictional characters do not exist (that is, non-existent entities) or they are abstract (that is, abstract entities), but are located in an ontological realm that is now called, "Meinong's jungle".
Characters do not exist in a vacuum.
Just because certain characters do not exist in the wild does not mean we should stop writing about them, although vampires really, really could stand a rest.
On the other side, among those with too little belief in character, we hear that characters do not exist at all.
To look for a real, substantive thing called consciousness, Dennett argues, is as silly as insisting that characters in novels, such as Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter, must be made up of a peculiar substance named "fictoplasm"; the idea is absurd and unnecessary, since the characters do not exist to begin with.
Characters do not exist because of a story.
The characters don't exist in the real world, lending Zazie dans le métro a childish spirit and charm.
Yet these squabbling characters don't exist just to make fun of the old "Father Knows Best" stereotypes.
But I suppose that "Birdman" fulfills the Academy's quota for ostensibly character-centered movies in which the characters don't exist outside of the lines of the screenplay (and, as if they needed another, they got "Nightcrawler," nominated for Best Original Screenplay).
Now that didn't happen because my characters didn't exist, but if they had existed then the movie is plausible".
