Williamson's own necessitism entails that merely possible individuals exist as necessary but propertyless abstracts, which are ontologically discontinuous from the robust possibilia possibilists invoke.
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Propertyless abstracts(what Williamson claims merely possible individuals are)
Abstract objects (ideas or concepts rather than physical things) that have no characteristics or qualities attached to them.
Robust possibilia(what other philosophers believe merely possible things are, contrasting with Williamson's view)
Things that could possibly exist but don't actually exist, viewed as having full reality and characteristics (not abstract or empty).
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.
merely possible individuals(Leibniz's ontology of possibles)
Individuals with determinate essences that are never actualized in the world; their being is contained solely in the divine mind.
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.