For modal fictionalism to become the preferred treatment of possible worlds, it must not only be able to perform adequately the tasks assigned to talk of possible worlds, it must also do better than its rivals, or at least possess virtues that those rivals lack.
It is trivial that we can compositionally assign something to each expression of a language (for example, if expressions serve as their own meanings, semantics is certainly compositional!) but it does not follow that it is trivial to adequately assign meanings to them.
Last year, an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction and the State Department's inspector general found that the State Department had overpaid Blackwater $55 million because the company had failed to adequately staff its teams assigned to protect American diplomats in Iraq.
Further studies are needed to determine how MMP-7 can adequately assign patients to prognostic subgroups for different treatments and how it can be used in the design of clinical trials.
How do we adequately assign tasks to compute nodes (executing a mapper or a reducer)?
This is adequately relayed by the dialogue assigned to her when conveying the message that there will be no significant blog/comic entry for the day.
Functions of the two remaining enzymes, RDH13 and RDH14, have yet to be adequately assigned.
Public goods such as the atmosphere and ecosystem services that are currently open-access need property rights assigned to them to adequately protect them.
A double-plus sign was assigned to studies that adequately fit all the criteria of randomisation, concealment, blinding, intention-to-treat analysis and predefined outcomes.
