 However, if states of affairs are individuated in terms of their components and their mode of combination, there are for every possible world many different maximal nontransient states of affairs (for the following see Zalta 1993: 393–4). If the state of affairs P is a possible world, so is \(P \mathbin{\&amp;} (Q\lor \neg Q)\) for an arbitrarily chosen possible state of affairs Q. P and \(P \mathbin{\&amp;} (Q\lor \neg Q)\) are necessarily equivalent, but, according to our individuation method, different states of affairs. Hence, there are many different maximal states of affairs that correspond to the same possible world and, in particular, to the actual world.