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    Challenges→Necessitism, though a logical truth of SQML, is not analytically entailed by possibilism.

    If possibilism's ontology is world-invariant by design, then the conceptual room the supporting arguments claim for contingent possibilia is already closed off by the possibilist's own semantic commitments.

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    Contingent possibilia(the types of non-existent things that possibilism tries to make room for)
    Things that could possibly exist but don't have to exist—like unrealized possibilities or things that could have been different.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Semantic commitments(as used in philosophy of language)
    The underlying beliefs or meanings someone is responsible for when they make a statement, even if the words are identical to someone else's statement.
    World-invariant(describing whether possibilism's claims hold true in every possible world)
    Something that stays the same across all possible scenarios or contexts, rather than changing from one situation to another.

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    possibilism(Contrasted with actualism; evaluates obligations based on what the agent could do, not what the agent will do.)
    The view that an agent's obligations are determined by the best act-set possible for the agent across the relevant time span, regardless of what the agent will actually do.

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