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  • noun Plural form of actualist.

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Examples

  • Another significant division among trope theories separates the actualists from the meinongians.

    Tropes Bacon, John 2008

  • ˜exist™ has the same linguistic meaning as when actualists assert, “Actual objects exist”.

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • Plantinga (Plantinga 1974), John Pollock (Pollock 1984) and Gustav Bergmann (Bergmann 1964) are examples of soft actualists; D.M. Armstrong (Armstrong 1997) and Ruth M.llikan (M.llikan 1984) are hard actualists.

    States of Affairs Wetzel, Thomas 2003

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