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Thanks for the reply. Regarding the first and second criticism, the reasons go back to negative existentials literature in the earliest 20th century between Meinong and Russell. The philosophy of language concern is how you can talk about non-actual things (e.g. Santa Claus, Mythical Sea Monsters) u...

Hello, I'm a big fan of metaphysics, and have studied possible world semantics and modality for years. The literature of counterfactuals has gone from David Lewis versus Saul Kripke (physical versus ersatz formulations of possible worlds) to stronger versions of ersatzism (fictionalism, the Sider Er...