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In article <1161102707.661950.39700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William of Ockham <d3uckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>There are three possibilities only.
>1. Every character is an invented one, as with Tolkien,
>2. some are invented, some are not
>3. None are invented (as with those reality dramas which depict
>dramatised events about real people).
By which you mean "every character is not invented", presumably...
>4. No fourth possibility.
Also: the three are mutually exclusive if there is at least one
character; 2 always implies that both 1 and 3 are false. But there is a
situation in which both 1 and 3 are true simultaneously: when there
are no characters. For example, in the case of characters of the books
reviewed in Stanislaw Lem's "A Perfect Vacuum", or in the chase of the
characters in the plot of my dictionary.
(Just sticking my nose in a thread I have not really read through...)
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