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    If singular propositions exist and actualism is true, the... — Carmelics
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    Supports→If one is an actualist and accepts singular propositions, one must either deny that propositions like 'Bush might not have existed' are possibly true, or find some other solution.

    If singular propositions exist and actualism is true, then necessarily everything necessarily exists.

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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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