 He also insists that: “fictitious things … or beings of reason, are not said to endure truly and properly, because they do not exist” (DM L 1.1). So, again, it may seem as if he means to contend that they exist, though not in the manner of true and real beings, or, again, insofar as they may be said to endure at all, they do so not truly or but rather only improperly.