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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

14689	Necessity and possibility are not just necessity and possibility according to the actual world [Salmon,N]
	Full Idea: The real meanings of the simple modal terms 'necessary' and 'possible' are not the same as the concepts of actual necessity and actual possibility, necessity and possibility according to the actual world.
	From: Nathan Salmon (The Logic of What Might Have Been [1989], IV)
	A reaction: If you were an 'actualist' (who denies everything except the actual world) then you are unlikely to agree with this. In unrestricted possible worlds, being true in one world makes it possible in all worlds. So actual necessity is possible everywhere.