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    Bush might have been nonconcrete in some possible world. — Carmelics
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    Supports→The Linsky-Zalta account can explain the intuition that Bush might not have existed by appealing to concreteness as a contingent property.

    Bush might have been nonconcrete in some possible world.

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    Matters are more difficult if one is an actualist, subscribing to the thesis that absolutely everything is actual. Then, if one accepts the existence of singular propositions, one has two options. First, one might deny that propositions like (7) are possibly true, accepting that necessarily everything necessarily exists, as Bernard Linsky and Edward Zalta, in their (1994) and Timothy Williamson, in his (2001), do. This position is only as plausible as the explanation on offer of the intuitive co

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