METAPHYSICS be alike? Or, finally, is the concept of identity simply inapplicable to unactualised possibles? But what sense can be found in talking of entities which cannot meaningfully be said to be identical with themselves and distinct from one another? (FLPV 666) The questions asked by Quine seem to me unanswerable, and thus to expose the incoherence of the notion of unactualized possible individuals But in the last decades of the century philosophers of great talent exercised themselves to answer Quine’s questions and thus to solve what was called ‘the problem of transworld identity’ In the light of the history recorded in these volumes it W.V.O Quine, the great enemy of the metaphysics of possible worlds How many possible men, he would have asked, are sharing the room with him here? 190