Sentence examples for fictional entities from inspiring English sources

If there are indeed no mathematical (fictional) entities, as one form of fictionalism has it, then Benacerraf's epistemological problem does not arise.

Mathematical theories describe fictional entities, in the same way that literary fiction describes fictional characters.

The two main characters, teen tennis prodigy Hal Incandenza and recovering addict and ex-con Donald Gately, have stayed with me as few fictional entities do.

And more than a few conservatives believe that these extra Democratic voters would not be actual people but fictional entities created by ACORN, George Soros, and those fabled big-city Democratic "machines".

But generating fictional entities is surely not quite that easy.

It seems natural to view them as fictional entities.

(While London and Napoleon are not fictional entities, some have thought that the London of the Holmes stories and the Napoleon of War and Peace are fictional entities).

Note also that fictional entities so conceived are not completely determined with respect to their properties, unlike fictional entities conceived on the model of possibilism.

They might also insist that fictional realists are the only ones to think that the nonexistence of fictional entities is determined by their nature as fictional entities.

The drawback of this suggestion is that fictional entities are notoriously beset with ontological riddles.

The metaphysical question about fictional entities asked what such entities are like, should there be any.