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    Challenges→KQML does not genuinely escape ontological commitment to possibilia despite invalidating BF, CBF, and BoxN

    There appears to be no other way to construct an intended Kripke interpretation that yields the correct truth values for modal propositions such as 'Bergoglio might have had children'

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    Bergoglio(as a historical reference in the example)
    The birth name of Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church; he's used in this example because he's a real person we can imagine in different life scenarios.
    Kripke interpretation(as used in modal logic)
    A formal system created by philosopher Saul Kripke for evaluating whether statements about possibility and necessity are true or false; it works by imagining different possible worlds and checking what's true in each one.

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    The entities that sentences stand for, according to Church's argument; the two truth values being the True and the False.

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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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