Subject: Re: The idea that fiction is "real" (for some value of real)
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Posted on: 2010-07-24 03:33:00 UTC

In one sense, a literary character is as real as the second cousin you always hear about but have never met. A literary character will often be more real to you than that second cousin. And these characters are real enough and internally consistent enough; we might as well view them as actually real, except for one thing: they don't actually exist anywhere in the world that's physically accessible to us.

Our fictional characters are as real as anything else, philosophically speaking, they just happen to not physically exist...

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