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    Possibilism can ground modal truth in abstract possible w... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Necessitism is an essential component of possibilism, not merely a natural complement to it.

    Possibilism can ground modal truth in abstract possible worlds as primitive entities rather than in the modal properties of concrete individuals.

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    • 1.Modal facts about what could have been are explanatorily basic and need not reduce to non-modal properties of actual concrete things.
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    • 2.Possible worlds provide a unified semantics for counterfactuals, necessity, and possibility without invoking sparse primitive properties.
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    • 3.Abstract entities can be ontologically innocent if they're logically indispensable for our best scientific and mathematical theories.
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    • 1.Positing infinite abstract possible worlds multiplies entities beyond necessity when modal facts might ground in concrete causal powers.
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    • 2.The notion of 'primitive abstract worlds' lacks explanatory content—it treats the puzzle of modality as solved by stipulation, not understanding.
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    • 3.Modal truths correlate with genuine properties and dispositions of concrete things; grounding them elsewhere severs explanatory connection.
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