@article {39711,
	title = {Necessary beings},
	journal = {Analysis},
	volume = {60},
	year = {2000},
	pages = {188-193},
	abstract = {<p>This paper shows that some plausible assumptions about any object that has a name lead to the conclusion that the object could not have failed to exist. Considering the conclusion wrong, I argue that the source of the error is the principle {\textquotedblleft}If something is the case, it could not have been impossible{\textquotedblright}, which occurs in some systems of modal logic; if an object did not exist, it would not be possible for it to exist.</p>},
	author = {Yannis Stephanou}
}
