fictifs

Updated: May 4, 2025

Under this would apparently fall the explanation of 'reality' which leads to a doctrine upon which he often insists, and which is most implicitly given in the fragment called Ontology. He there distinguishes 'real' from 'fictitious entities, a distinction which, as he tells us, he first learned from d'Alembert's phrase Êtres fictifs and which he applies in his Morals and Legislation.

Leslie Stephen - The English Utilitarians, Volume I.