13-year-old boy bitten by possible shark off Fire Island
______________________________No-one will now laugh at philosophers who spend sleepless nights worrying about the ontological status of possible objects. As the above headline shows, possible objects are as real as the actual ones, and are capable of causing considerable harm to those who pay no attention to modal metaphysics.
I wonder if the metaphysical awakening initiated by ABC News will soon lead to Nobel Prizes for possible vaccines, long prison sentences for possible crimes, and a Netflix remake of Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster classic, albeit with this metaphysically updated title:
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Actually, it possibly tells us more about the poor writing at ABC News.
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