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    If there are no truthmakers for modal propositions, possi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Necessitism is an essential component of possibilism, not merely a natural complement to it.

    If there are no truthmakers for modal propositions, possibilism's central philosophical justification collapses.

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    Although it is a logical truth of SQML, necessitism is not analytically entailed by possibilism. There is, in particular, nothing in the idea of a mere possibile that demands its necessity, nothing that rules out worlds from which it might be altogether absent, worlds (in addition to those in which it is either concrete or non-concrete) in which nothing is identical to it. This might lead one to wonder whether SQML, by building necessitism into its logical foundations, has (from a possibilist pe

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