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    Supports→An individual available as a value across non-actual worlds satisfies the functional definition of a possibilium, regardless of whether the object-language quantifiers range over it.

    If an object plays the functional role of a possible individual (having properties in worlds, standing in cross-world relations), it qualifies as possibilium regardless of linguistic access.

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    Key Terms

    Cross-world relations(as used in metaphysics)
    Connections or relationships between things as they exist in different possible scenarios or alternate situations.
    Linguistic access(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of language)
    The ability to refer to or talk about something using words or language.
    Possibilium(as used in metaphysics and modal logic)
    A thing that could exist or could have properties—basically, anything that's logically possible, even if it doesn't actually exist in the real world.
    Worlds (in philosophy)(modal metaphysics)
    Possible ways the universe could be or could have been—like alternate realities with different facts and events.
    functional role(The criterion by which mental states are identified on the analytic functionalist view.)

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    A pattern of causal relations that an internal state bears to stimulations, behavior, and other internal states.
    possible individual(contrasted with actual individuals)
    A person or thing that could exist but doesn't actually exist in the real world—like a character in a story that never happened.

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