Time and Actuality

FAIN: FA-11200-75

Alvin C. Plantinga
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)

To explore the issue between essentialist and existentialist ontologies, trying to determine which should be_ accepted. Study to deal with such problems as propositions that vary in truth value from one possible world to another in regard to time, can a proposition be true at one time and false at another. In exploring actuality, some states of affairs are actual; others are possible but not actual; still others are neither actual nor possible. Study will conclude with an inquiry into the bearing of existentialist —both ontological and temporal — on two topics in (over)