 Forbes (1989: 130–131) refines Reinach’s idea in taking states of affairs as the fundamental bearers of modal properties like being possible, necessary etc. From Reinach we learn that particulars can’t be the bearers of modality. Fregean truth-values are also unsuited. According to Frege’s semantics for assertoric sentences, every true (false) sentence, whether necessary or contingently true (false), refers to the True (the False). Forbes appeals to our modal intuitions to argue for a better candidate for the modal value bearer role,