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Good to know there's a shorter version for "fictional entity".From my memory, I see Ficta as a term used by Philosophy students to mean Fictional entities. I am not too familiar with Academic
Philosophy.
It took some time but I found the term in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
plato.stanford.edu › entries › fictional-entities
- Fictional characters belong to the class of entities variously known as fictional entities or fictional objects or ficta, a class that includes not just animate objects of fiction (fictional persons, animals, monsters, and so on) but also inanimate objects of fiction such as fictional places (Anthony Trollope’s cathedral town of Barchester and Tolkien’s home of the elves, Rivendell, for example).
Fictional Entities - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy- People also ask
As I said, I think these ficta do exist - when they are written consistently. Some ficta do not exist, or at least their existence is dubious. Even ficta have to have consistency. Something that is logically impossible, like YHVH in the bible, is so contradictory that no consensus among readers can be found about its attributes. It does not exist as a single recognizable entity. Sometimes that can be mended by referring to a distinct version of the character. E.g.: Lucifer in the TV series Lucifer is a version of the Lucifer character from the Sandman comix series.