ABSTRACT
The problem of contingent non-existents is often bolstered by certain embedded modal claims. For example, although I don’t actually have an older sister, I certainly could have had one. Moreover, I could have had an older sister who was not a doctor, but might have been one. But, these embedded modal claims are not a problem for the gappy propositions version of Linguistic Ersatzism. Consider two gappy propositions which we might represent as follows:
R1: ,____n, being an older sister of Joshua. R2: ,____n, is a doctor.
