A deeply anti-realist family of approaches to modal metaphysics has been developed, though: modal fictionalism.
We will look at these two metaphysical motivations in more detail in section 4, where we discuss the relationship between counterfactuals and laws, causation and other high-level concepts, and in section 5, where we discuss the motivations for Lewis's modal metaphysics.
A final underexplored topic in Spinoza's modal metaphysics concerns what we might call the ground of modality.
Loux 1979 is the standard anthology of classical writings in modal metaphysics in 1963 79.
We'll discuss in the next section his distinctive modal metaphysics.
This was the dominating conception of theological modal metaphysics until Duns Scotus departed from it.
Whether any objects are necessary beings is an important question of modal metaphysics.
(This topic will be addressed principally in the article on Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics).
Answering these questions will force us yet deeper into Spinoza's modal metaphysics in the next section.
Questions about whether there could be qualitatively indiscernible but numerically distinct things becomes important in modal metaphysics.
