[WikiEN-l] fictional categories

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 16:40:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Schrodinger's cat is a fictitious cat that is in the Schrodinger's cat
> thought experiment.

Yes...but we don't have an article about "Schrodinger's cat" itself.
Only about the thought experiment.

> It is fictitious because it is not a factual cat; it is countrafactual.

I'm not sure that's a sufficient definition of "fictitious" here.
Surely it must also mean "appearing in fiction".

Steve



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