Sherlock Holmes Is Not Out There: Some Ideas for An Anti-Exoticist Account of Fictional Characters

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  • Jansan Favazzo Università di Macerata

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfia.6.2.16052

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Abstract: Many philosophers include fictional objects like Sherlock Holmes in their ontological inventory. Yet, if Sherlock Holmes is part of reality, then he must be an «exotic» entity: either non-concrete or non-actual or non-existent. In this paper, I will assume that whatever there is (in reality) is concrete, actual, and existent. Accordingly, I will sketch a way to get rid of fictional entities, based on Sellars' metalinguistic strategy for nominalism. Roughly speaking, the main result can be stated as follows: when we talk about Sherlock Holmes, we are actually talking about Sherlock Holmes depictions.

Keywords: Fiction, Nominalism, Actualism.

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2019-11-26

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Favazzo, J. (2019). Sherlock Holmes Is Not Out There: Some Ideas for An Anti-Exoticist Account of Fictional Characters. Quaderns De Filosofia, 6(2), 17–25. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfia.6.2.16052
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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)

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