A Defense of Actualist Realism∗
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In this paper, the authors argue that there is a version of actualist realism about possible worlds and possible individuals that is immune to the difficulties raised for this view in Divers 2002. We show that object theory, as a form of actualist realism, provides a general theory of modality that is at least as good as genuine realism but without the commitment to possible worlds in David
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تاریخ انتشار 2007