Williamson's necessitism, which Linsky-Zalta resembles, faces the decisive objection that it cannot explain why some necessitist entities have modal profiles radically unlike any concrete thing.
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Objection (in philosophy)(as used in philosophical argumentation)
A challenge or counterargument that tries to show a theory or claim is wrong or has a flaw.
Williamson
# Williamson
Williamson most commonly refers to Timothy Williamson, a prominent British philosopher known for his work on knowledge, logic, and language. He's influential in contemporary philosophy for arguing that knowledge is more fundamental than belief and that traditional definitions of knowledge may be too restrictive. His ideas have shaped how philosophers think about what it means to know something and how language relates to reality.
necessitism(Philosophy of modality; a logical truth of SQML)
The view that everything that exists exists necessarily — both possibilia and actually existing things alike are necessary beings, such that there are no worlds from which they are altogether absent.