 The fiction view of models provides an answer: models are akin to places and characters in literary fiction and claims about them are true or false in the same way in which claims about these places and characters are true or false. Such a position has been recently defended explicitly by some authors (Frigg 2010a,b; Frigg and Nguyen 2021; Godfrey-Smith 2006; Salis 2021), but not without opposition (Giere 2009; Magnani 2012). It does bear noting that the analogy has been around for a while (Cartwright 1983; McCloskey 1990; Vaihinger 1911 [1924]). This leaves the thorny issue of how to analyse fictional places and characters. Here philosophers of science can draw on discussions from aesthetics to fill in the details about these questions (Friend 2007 and Salis 2013 provide useful reviews).