The Muse would take up temporary residence in successive actually existing women, who might individually contain several other mythic identities (in one case Andromeda, Niobe and Helen), but Her truth remained the same.
The shadow planets actually existed without actually existing.
Like the new actualists, then, the haecceitist's metaphysics enables him to systematically reinterpret possible world semantics in such a way that the truth conditions of modal discourse are expressed solely in term of actually existing entities of some sort rather than actual and non-actual individuals.
This is compatible with actualism, provided that all such objects are actual in the sense of actually existing (Linsky & Zalta 1994, also Williamson 1998, 2002, 2013; it is noteworthy that Timothy Williamson independently argues for what he calls necessitism, which says [in a nutshell] that every possible object is a necessary object).
Recall that our thought experiment asked us to "imagine a race of beings that is very different from any life-form that actually exists anywhere in the universe; different enough, in fact, that no actually existing thing could have been an Alien, any more than a given gorilla could have been a fruitfly".
That is, what Tom describes as the centrist position both parties know they should adopt, but refuse to do because of partisanship on both sides, is in fact the actually existing position of the Democratic party — a position that Republicans denounce as "socialist".
Thus, in this first stage of the actualist treatment of modality, ordinary possibility claims are analyzed in terms of actually existing states of affairs.
There are a couple of reasons leading to false-negatives in the Y2H system, a drawback actually existing in all PPI-methods.
Imagine a race of beings — call them 'Aliens' — that is very different from any life-form that exists anywhere in the universe; different enough, in fact, that no actually existing thing could have been an Alien, any more than a given gorilla could have been a fruitfly.
