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Description: The thesis that there are no merely possible entities; by Christopher Menzel.
Actualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Sat Jun 17, 2000; substantive revision Mon Dec 8, 2008 Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality. To understand the thesis of actualism, consider the following example. 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. Now, even though there are no Aliens, it seems intuitively the case that there
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