| 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. |
| In fact, it may even be taken further to afford actualist representationists a way to maintain that Kaplan's automobile is not only possible but is an actual object after all. |
| 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. |
| While this position deserves serious consideration, I propose to set it aside and explore only actualist solutions. |
| This kind of actualist or vitalist model will find it difficult, of course, to deal with the traditional areas of conflict. |
