Abstract

Abstract Modal fictionalism was proposed as an attempt to keep the possible worlds framework but avoid the ontological commitment of this framework. While the modal realist analyzes modal claims by means of non-modal claims about possible worlds, the modal fictionalist takes this framework as a fiction, and analyzes modal claims in terms of the content of this fiction, calling it PW. Then, when P is an arbitrary modal claim, and P* is the realist’s translation of P, the modal fictionalist will assert every instance of the following schema: P iff according to PW, P*.

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