Talk:Actualism

Merge Actual Freedom into Actualism?
The article Actual Freedom is directly referenced at the end of the Actualism article, and in the Actual Freedom article it primarily refers to the practice as "Actualism". Also, the only references in the Actual Freedom article come from the Actual Freedom website, with no secondary references.

Seems like the two articles could probably be merged under the single banner "Actualism". The term "Actual Freedom" and "Actualism" seem interchangable in the A.F. article. Also, additional outside references to "Actual Freedom" would be useful to verify the information. Dugwiki 20:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I second that. - Nearfar 14:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Actualism as a formal term in philosophy is different from the "actual freedom"'s actualism, it can be a disambiguation term in the actualism article. -harmanjitsingh

Free will debate
I think actualism is also a position in the free will debate, the position that philosophical actuality has priority over a deterministic understanding of human will. ADM (talk) 16:39, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Added redirect 'Modal actualism'
I looked and didn't find this article under (the expected) 'Modal actualism' so I've added a redirect; I see now from this article's talk page there may be other senses of 'Actualism' that don't bear directly on possible worlds in the same way that Modal realism and Modal fictionalism do, so maybe there needs to be a separate article; though I don't know enough about the other senses of 'Actualsim' to comment. BrideOfKripkenstein (talk) 16:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * ... and now I see that at least one of the other senses was in an article deleted as neologism so perhaps never mind then. BrideOfKripkenstein (talk) 16:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

TRUTH WITHIN FICTION
The article would greatly benefit from an expansion into or with an inclusion of a section that discusses the commonly studied notion of "Truth within Fiction" by Classical Philologists. Ken Dowden and Nagy as well as A. Parry are good sources and starting points. Whoever has the time and would like to make the effort to include such ideas in order to expand the article, should do so, but I do not have the time at present.

A classic example would be that within the world of superman, to deny that "superman flies" would be false, but to deny that superman flies within reality would be true. Likewise to say that in the world of superman, superman can die from a bullet, would be false. Nonetheless, the world of fiction and the world of reality can become conflated, so it is not uncommon to say in the real world when my roommate says "superman cannot fly" that his statement is false, both in the real world and in the fictional world of superman.

To this end we may tread into the world of simulacra, as well as nested simulacra, and nested realities; and the article may also benefit by a mere mention of relevant philosophy. _ _ _ _ Ἑλλαιβάριος Ellaivarios _ _ _ _ 00:24, 26 February 2012 (UTC)