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    In KQML, the sentence asserting that there are non-actual... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The possibilist commitments of an intended KQML interpretation cannot be eliminated by the fact that the sentence 'there exist things that are not actual' is false at every world in KQML

    In KQML, the sentence asserting that there are non-actual things is false at every world due to quantifier restrictions

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    On the face of it, KQML provides the actualist with a powerful alternative to SQML. However, one might well question its actualist credentials. Specifically, despite the invalidity of the actualistically objectionable principles BF, CBF, and \(\Box\textbf{N},\) it is questionable whether KQML has escaped ontological commitment to possibilia, for the following reason. KQML provides us with a formal semantics for (constant-free) modal languages \(\scrL_\Box\) and, in particular, an account of how

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