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Lewis IV 22
Actual/actuality/üossible worlds/van Inwagen/Lewis:
1) The primary sense refers to the possible worlds in which the utterance is made.
2) The secondary sense moves the reference into the context.
This must be taken more into account than I did in the main text
(according to Peter van Inwagen and Allen Hazen):

E.g.
Only primary sense:
There could have been items which differ from the actual ones.
I could be richer than I really am.

Only secondary sense:
The following is contingent: in the actual world Caesar was assassinated.
Let "Alpha" be the name of the actual world: Alpha (without quotation marks) could not have been the actual world.
Let "Beta" be a world, Beta could also be actual.

The examples show that one needs both: primary and secondary sense.
>Possible worlds, >Identity across worlds, >Hyperintensionality.

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