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    The claim that necessity holds in every possible world pr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Necessary truths are necessary in every possible world

    The claim that necessity holds in every possible world presupposes a fixed modal space, but the cardinality and structure of that space is itself a substantive metaphysical posit, not a logical truth.

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    Key Terms

    Metaphysical posit(as a philosophical assumption)
    A claim or assumption about what fundamentally exists or is real, often one that can't be directly proven but is proposed as true.
    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    cardinality(Central to comparing infinite sets and establishing that no universal set exists.)
    A measure of the size of a set, indicating the number of elements it contains.
    fixed modal space(as used in modal metaphysics)
    A stable, unchanging collection of all possible worlds—the idea that there's a definite set of scenarios reality could have been in.
    logical truth

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    (Bolzano's formal definition, inapplicable to purely logical propositions)
    A proposition is logically true if all of its i^s-variants (substitutions of extra-logical ideas) are true
    modal(in logic and metaphysics)
    Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
    necessity(Auriol's modal theory of future contingents)
    The property of necessarily being the way something is; equivalent to immutability in Auriol's modal theory
    possible world(Leibniz's account of modality; 'existence' of possible worlds is shorthand for compossibility, not literal existence)
    A set of compossible essences — a maximal collection of individual natures that can co-exist without contradiction

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