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Monotheistic metaphysicians disagreed over both (a) on what in God modal truths and modal truth-makers depend and (b) by what manner of dependence modal truths and modal-truth makers depend on God.

According to Descartes' account, (a) modal truths and modal truth-makers depend on God's volitions and (b) the form of dependence is efficient causation.

According to Leibniz, (a) modal truths and modal truth-makers depend wholly on God's intellectual activities and (b) the form of dependence is ontological and does not involve efficient causation.

This paper addresses some problems involving modal truth and the modal truth criterion (MTC).

If the truths of possibility and necessity (and conditionality, and other modal truths) obtain without dependence on the content of the modal fiction, it is surely reasonable to suppose that whichever fiction it is correct to employ, it must respect those independently obtaining modal truths.

Absent a rigorous semantic theory to identify the source of its intensionality and to systematize intuitions about modal truth, validity, and logical consequence, there was little hope for the widespread acceptance of modal logic.

It has also been claimed that modal truths supervene on non-modal ones, and that general truths supervene on particular truths.

Another point of departure for the modalist program in the epistemology of modality is that because there is no postulation of possible worlds that serve as the truth-makers for claims about possibility and necessity there is no worry that in knowing modal truths we must come into contact with privileged objects that are not thought to be accessible to human minds.

For the modal truths are not up to us, it seems.

Taking modal facts to depend on accidents of our storytelling seems to make the modal truths too artificial.

Let us examine how actualist representationists handle apparent modal truths asserting the possibility of non-actual objects.