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I would love to continue, but alas I have duties which call. Thanks for the intelligent interchange. One last thought, taking your criteria wouldn't it be fair to say that Holmes died at the same time as Doyle, and everyhing after has been but a mere human folly?

A fictious character can have what finite embodiment? It is a product of a mind, which could be argued it's finite embodiment, but thereafter it is open to subjective interpretation, and nolonger exists in one place but in points of contact. Or am I confusing myself?

Exactly. Existance is subject to human thought and interpretation. Each character exist to each owner, at that particular moment on space and time, along with the structures that go along with it i.e faith, hate, love. I would have thought though, that your given criteria suggests that...

Therefore, the existance of an entity in human thought gives existance, ipso facto, anything the human mind can dream of exists. Does anything exist that is not reliant on human consciousness.

Outside of human interpretation and observrvation he fails to exist. The paper, ink exist, according to your creteria. He is also not in a specific location, but in many locations, in many forms: letters, audio, film, play, statue, game...

Doesn't he fail to exist on B & C?

The character.

Does Sherlock Holmes exist then?

Do works of fiction exist?