| The embarrassing question for the actualist who would adopt the proposed instrumentalist view of Kripke semantics is: what distinguishes Kripkean semantics from Tarskian? |
| At the same time, Jubien's objection under-generalizes once we consider the actualist who identifies possible worlds with uninstantiated maximal properties. |
| This kind of actualist or vitalist model will find it difficult, of course, to deal with the traditional areas of conflict. |
| Plantinga's version of actualist representationism faces its own version of the Quinean challenge, namely, the problem of specifying the individual essences which are supposed to replace non-actual possible objects. |
| The goal of this paper is to defend the actualist desire-satisfaction theory against the problem of defective desires. |
| These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist quantifiers. |
