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"Regardless of what fictional entity is being worshiped, many now grasp that extremist theism worldwide promotes acts of savage injustice," he said.
But just as a unique collection of actual "subjects" and "predicates" (that is, literal-synecdochic elements) make up a word, so too do actual "subjects" and "predicates" (that is, again, literal-synecdochic elements) make up a fictional entity.
When I am called upon to write about the mostly fictional entity called Spinal Tap, I usually do so in the mostly fictional character of David St Hubbins, long-time guitarist/clothes-horse for said group.
Regional households hold equity in firms in all regions through a fictional entity called "global trust" that allocates foreign investment.
In addition, the restricted nature of such properties makes it hard to see how to individuate a fictional entity.
Not surprisingly, then, one fundamental philosophical question we can ask about fictional entities is a question about their nature: what kind of thing is a fictional entity?
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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.
Corporations are inanimate fictional entities in law.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, p 55. Kripke S (2011) Vacuous names and fictional entities.
The study of fictional characters (also called fictional entities) has been found to have quite broad implications for analytic philosophy.
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