Proxy 'actualism'
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Proxy ‘Actualism’ Karen Bennett Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
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Bennett and ‘ Proxy Actualism ’ ∗ ( Draft )
We examine Karen Bennett’s claim, in Bennett 2006, that the view articulated in Linsky and Zalta 1994 and 1996 is not consistent with the thesis of actualism. Actualism is the thesis that everything there is, i.e., everything that exists, is actual. Actualism has long been thought to be incompatible with the simplest quantified modal logic (QML), in which there is a fixed domain common to every...
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تاریخ انتشار 2004