 One final matter requires attention. Quine’s choice of Pegasus as his paradigmatic possibile in the above quote highlights the fact that even relatively modern discussions often conflate the two motivations for non-existent objects and, consequently, conflate fictional objects and possibilia, and this leads to an important confusion about the nature of possibilia that is important to avoid. It is particularly evident in another well-known Quinean passage. Returning to his own voice, in an attempt to show that possibilism is ultimately incoherent, Quine asks a series of rhetorical questions, beginning with the following: