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    Challenges→There are two distinct modes of predication: exemplification and encoding.

    Positing non-existent objects that encode properties generates a bloated ontology that violates parsimony without solving problems that robust actualism via possible worlds or Meinongianism cannot already address more cleanly.

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    Key Terms

    Meinongianism(Reached by presentists who deny that relations are existence-entailing.)
    A position that countenances nonexistent objects as relata of relations or bearers of properties.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    actualism(Modal ontology)
    The view that only actual things exist; non-actual possibilia are not genuine ontological commitments
    non-existent objects(Meinong's object theory)
    Objects that do not exist in the actual world but which, on Meinong's view, nonetheless have being and can possess properties.
    parsimony(Used by both Tomasello & Call and Povinelli & Vonk to justify mutually incompatible conclusions)

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    A criterion of explanatory simplicity favoring hypotheses that posit fewer entities, capacities, or rules to account for the same data.
    positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
    The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized

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