 (24c) is also true, if we are careful about what ‘do not exist’ means in this context. It is contingent that Zeus-myths were ever formulated, and one sense in which we might mean (24c) turns on the assumption that fictional and mythical characters exist iff fictions and myths about them do. In this sense, (24c) is false, though an actual fictional character such as Zeus would not have existed if there had been no Zeus-myths. This also explains why (24a) and (24b) can both be true: ‘Zeus’ refers to the mythical character, a contingently existing abstract object.