As usual, I am bemused by the ontology of fictional characters. What could "this character is a replicant" possibly mean other than "the author had in mind that this character was a replicant when writing the story"?
And what possible difference does it make if the author says at some point in the story, "He was a replicant"? As opposed to in an interview a hundred years later?
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Date: 2007-10-21 07:05 pm (UTC)As usual, I am bemused by the ontology of fictional characters. What could "this character is a replicant" possibly mean other than "the author had in mind that this character was a replicant when writing the story"?
And what possible difference does it make if the author says at some point in the story, "He was a replicant"? As opposed to in an interview a hundred years later?