Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metaphysics, the doctrine that all existence is truly active or spiritual, and not dead or inert.
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- noun philosophy Belief that actuality and
existence are co‐extensive: i.e., that only actual things exist, that there are not, in addition to the actual, anypossibility (possible entities).
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Examples
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His actualism is a distinctly metaphysical actualism: singularis.
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His actualism is a distinctly metaphysical actualism: singularis.
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That is, Hegel falls into what might be called "actualism" or the thesis that the being of entities is exhausted by their manifestation in actuality.
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Anyone can argue actualism at this point – feel free to do so.
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This is compatible with actualism, provided that all such objects are actual in the sense of actually existing (Linsky and Zalta 1994, also Williamson 1998).
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Famously, the two main options in the metaphysics of modality are David Lewis '(so-called extreme) modal realism, and ersatzism (or actualism, or abstractionism) in its various forms.
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Another concern about this proposal is rooted in the metaphysical doctrine of actualism.
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Since every state of affairs has its modal status in every possible world, every state of affairs exists in every possible world if we assume that the principle of actualism
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W1 to have any properties in W1 (if serious actualism is true).
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Another example is serious actualism: the proposition that an object has properties only in worlds in which it exists.
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