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Cover -- Metaphysics, Meaning, And Modality: Themes From Kit Fine -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Contributors -- Introduction: Kit Fine-a Philosopher's Philosopher -- Part I: Metaphysics -- 1: Ontology: What's The (real) Question? -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Metaphysics? -- 2 The Question Of Realism -- 3 The Question Of Ontology -- 4 The Ontological Versus The Rest: Ontology For All! -- 5 Gods, Integers, And Plural Quantifiers -- 6 Quantification, Pretense, And As-if-ism: An Alternative To The Partitive Account -- 7 Really? -- 8 Conclusion -- References 2: Beyond Reality? -- 1 A Classification Of The Restriction View Of Reality -- 1.1 First Route To A Restricted View Of Reality: Rejection Of The Reality Principle -- 1.1.1 Partitioning The Things There Are -- 1.1.2 Partitioning How Things Are -- 1.2 Second Route To Restricted Reality: Beyond Things And How Things Are -- 1.2.1 Beyond Things -- 1.2.2 Beyond How Things Are -- 1.3 Matters Beyond Reality: Do They Supervene On Reality? Are They Grounded In It? -- 2 Certain Restriction Views Of Reality Pertaining To Time And Modality -- 2.1 The Relevant Species Of Presentism And Actualism 2.2 Sanson And Caplan's View -- 2.3 Brute Possibility Actualism -- 2.4 Two Contrasts With Brute Past Presentism: Prioreanism And Eternalism -- References -- 3: One Absolutely Infinite Universe To Rule Them All -- 1 Three Questions About The Universe -- 2 Intermezzo: Universe Skepticism Vs. Universe Realism -- 3 Universe-skepticism: The Effects Of Kant's Symbiotic Idealism/realism -- 4 Set Theory-a Hotbed Of Realism About An Absolutely Infinite Universe? -- 4.1 Reflection: The Executive Arm Of Symbiotic Idealism/realism -- 4.2 Reflection Is (just) A Model-theoretic Principle 4.3 Reflection Bottom-up-the Executive Arm Of Conceptualism -- 4.4 Justification-reflection And Large Cardinals By Way Of Licensing Concepts -- 4.5 Enters Reverse Reflection-top-down Unfolding Reflection -- 5 Justification Vs. Unfolding Reflect