 Russell’s thoroughgoing modal skepticism led him to exclude possibilia from his non-existent  objects.[17]  Nonetheless, were he to have admitted them into his ontology, the subsistent realm would be their natural place in his bifurcated ontology. Quine (1948: 22), in the voice of his fictional possibilist metaphysician Wyman—and undoubtedly influenced at the time by recent work of C. I. Lewis (1943) and Rudolf Carnap  (1947)[18]—made  exactly this move in a justly famous and widely-cited paper that played a pivotal role in both framing the philosophical issues and fixing modern terminology: