| (9) |
  x(Sxp
&Px) |
| (10) |
x(Dxy
& Pxz) |
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can be represented as follows:
(7) The pope (i.e., Karol Wojtyla) could have had a son who could have become a priest. (8) There could be a planet disturbing the orbit of planet Y and it could have a period of Z years.
These have straightforward actualist truth conditions requiring no possibilia. For consider (9). The thing x which might have been both the pope's son and possibly a priest is a contingently nonconcrete object that at some other world is the pope's son and at yet another world is a priest.
(9) (10)
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