The way we talk about fictional objects in everyday language seems to presuppose insights that are inconsistent with each other. We say things like: “Sherlock Holmes does not exist” or “Sherlock Homes is a detective” or “Sherlock Holmes is a character created by Conana Doyle”. In this book I propose a realist theory of fictional objects employing the conceptual resources taken from the contemporary analytic neo-Aristotelian tradition with the aim of reconciling our conflicting intuitions about Sherlock Holmes and fictitious entities in general. Specifically, my theory is a new version of artefactualism based upon Evnine’s reformulation of hylomorphism called amorphism.Il modo in cui parliamo degli oggetti fittizi nel linguaggio di tutti i g...