Now this approach will be applied to the analysis of modality in Chinese.
For modalists, the correct analysis of modality involves no quantification over possibilities or possible worlds.
In this section, I will discuss whether Spinoza has an analysis of modality, and if so, whether his analysis of modality sheds any light on the dispute over his alleged necessitarianism.
It is important to note that the possible worlds of abstractionism do not yield a reductive analysis of modality.
(Rosen also points out that the modal fictionalist can sidestep the argument if he does not take the fiction to provide the materials for an analysis of modality).
If we are going to have primitive unanalyzed modalities besides that of "truth in fiction" in our theory anyway, why bother with an analysis of modality in terms of truth-in-fiction?
But Łukasiewicz's championing of multivalence in the analysis of modality has been almost universally rejected, and the logic of modality has inexorably followed other paths, mostly bivalent, non-extensional ones.
The second step in the actualist analysis of modality is to find a way to do without possible but nonactual individuals — also known as mere possibilia or contingently nonactual individuals.
This will only be of concern to some modal fictionalists, of course — timid fictionalists will not have been looking for a reductive analysis of modality based on their fiction in the first place — and some timid fictionalists such as Divers 1999b explicitly endorse modal explanations of the fictionalist operator (Divers 1999b, p. 335).
A fictionalist who wishes to provide an analysis of modality, on the other hand, had better not take their "according to PW …" operator to be analysed in terms of standard modal devices, or alternatively in terms of possible worlds (see Rosen 1990, pp. 344 345).
