Sentence examples for fictional object from inspiring English sources

Holmes is a particular fictional object.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional object and a fictional character.

No matter how similar, an actual object that resembles a fictional object would not be that fictional object (Kripke (1972/1980 157 8)).

A fictional object simply has those properties according to the story.

His liver is a fictional object but not a fictional character.

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

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

But if this implies that the activity of fiction making is essential to the identity of fictional objects, we no longer have a pure neo-Meinongianism but a view that is closer to the 'creationist' view described in the next section).

Some fictional objects are ascribed incompatible properties in their home fiction by their original author (usually inadvertently).

3. A modal fictionalist need not take possible worlds to be concrete, spatio-temporal (albeit fictional) objects: one could easily be a fictionalist whose fiction of possible worlds describes them as being abstract objects of some sort.

A theory that holds that possible worlds are to be treated as having the status of fictional objects immediately gives rise to questions about the status of fictions and fictional objects more generally.