Fictional Character

AKA: Fictional Entity.
Context:
- It can (often) mimic some aspects of a Living Being.
- It can be interpreted to behave in some ways as a Physical Entity.
- It can range from being a One-Time Fictional Charater to being a Shared Universe Fictional Character.
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Example(s):
- a Fictional Person, such as: a Witch, a Gilgamesh Character, an Achilles Character/Odysseus, a Hamlet Character, a Sherlock Holmes Character.
- A Frankestein Monster.
- a Heroic Character, such as Odysseus.
- A Unicorn.
- An Angel.
- A Fictional AI, such as J.A.R.V.I.S..
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Real-World Entity, such as Bucephalus and Isaac Newton.
- a Fiction Novel.
See: Physical Entity.

References

(Bach, 2008) ⇒ Kent Bach. (2008). “On Referring and Not Referring.” In: Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg, editors. Oxford University Press.
- QUOTE: Even more problematic is the case of negative existentials, and the related problem of empty names. (To assert, for example, that Hamlet does not exist is surely not to assert of Hamlet that he does not exist, mush less to presuppose that he exists. It is possible to argue that Hamlet is a fictional character, specifically an abstract entity created by Shakespeare.