Wo has a very good review posted of Amie Thomasson’s Fiction and Metaphysics. He is rather clear about a few of the worries I have been rather unclear about here the last week or two. In particular, I think the examples of sentences he gives that are neither ‘fictional’ nor ‘serious’ in Thomasson’s sense are a problem for the theory. And I worry a lot about the indeterminate existence point he makes at the end. Portrait of the Artist has lots of examples of ‘characters’ who might or might not be real people. If they are not real, they are closely modelled on real people – but I take it that’s consistent with actually being a character in Thomasson’s sense.