Truthmakers for Modals Meaning, Truth, Modals and Quantifiers.

The study begins with the outline of a general theory of truthmaking. Then, the author raises some issues for the theory in its application to modal languages and points to some specific answers. In the remaining part the paper explores some ramifications of this topic and discusses issues pertaining to meaning, truth and quantification in modal contexts and discourse. The upshot is to lay the ground for a theory of truthmakers for modal languages and modal truths. The author intends to investigate the prospects and ramifications of modal actualism, and against this background to develop a view which is anti-realist concerning the existence of possible worlds but which is free to use possible-worlds semantics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]