  Sylvan spent many years developing and defending noneism, but he was not entirely satisfied with it. He had two major complaints. On the one hand, he thought that his way of presenting noneism was rhetorically problematic: EMJB was too long, rambling, and not incisive enough. As such, EMJB needed to be rewritten (see Sylvan 1995b). On the other hand, he aimed at “liberalizing noneism” by allowing all items to have both characterizing and non-characterizing properties (Sylvan 1995b). Archival documents show that, to this end, Sylvan tried to develop a new theory that has many features in common with so-called “modal Meinongianism”, recently defended by Priest. On these issues, see Casati (2018), Griffin (2018), Kroon (2019), Priest (2005).