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    Ordinary objects like Bush intuitively seem to exist cont... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The Linsky-Zalta-Williamson position that necessarily everything necessarily exists is only as plausible as its explanation of the intuitive contingency of ordinary objects.

    Ordinary objects like Bush intuitively seem to exist contingently.

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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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