Ontology || Superposition
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A particle is simultaneously in two different states.
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An entity is simultaneously p and not p.
STEM
Schrödinger’s Cat is dead and alive at the same time.
Literature
A character is fictional and nonfictional at the same time.
An event occurs and does not occur.
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The extent to which an entity exists.
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Analogous motifs in the storyline: Two entities that have been set in contrast are presented as interchangeable
“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison
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Analogous arrangements in narrative structure: characters that are both fictional and nonfictional; their ontological status at a given moment depends on the context in which they are observed
Jim Henson’s Muppets
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Trauvitch, Rhona. “Ontology and Superposition: Where the Muppets Meet and Do Not Meet Schrödinger’s Cat.” Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem, edited by Timothy M. Dale and Joseph F. Foy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015, pp. 199-208.
