If 'Sherlock Holmes encodes being a detective' is reanalyzed as a claim about a fictional representation or abstract story-artifact, encoding collapses into ordinary exemplification by concrete cultural objects.
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(as a literary reference and philosophical example)
A famous fictional detective created by author Arthur Conan Doyle; used here as an example of something we can talk about and refer to even though it's not real.
collapses into(as used in philosophical reasoning)
Loses its distinct identity and merges with or reduces to something else.
exemplification(Lowe's four-category ontology)
The relation by which an object possesses an attribute, either occurrently (via an instantiated mode) or dispositionally (via the kind the object instantiates).