 Now, an objector may want to press the following point against the above purported solution to the difficulty. Consider again the fact that Socrates is wise. Surely, it might be said, it is more natural to maintain that that fact does not exist in a possible world where Socrates is not wise, rather than that it exists there all right, but is not a fact. After all, imagine a conversation about a world in which Socrates is not wise and suppose that Speaker A claims that Socrates is indeed wise in that world. Speaker B might counter with 