IT ISN'T SO, BUT COULD IT BE?

In his paper "Could Everything Be True?", Graham Priest argued against trivialism, the thesis that everything is true. Priest was aiming to show that it is not so easy to dismiss trivialism, but that in the end it fails. This paper focuses on a different but related thesis, namely that trivialism is possible. The possibility of trivialism is indicated by a more general thesis, namely that anything is possible, which is known as possibilism. Some of Priest's arguments indicate that he takes his arguments to refute the latter claim as well. This paper begins by surveying the advantages of possibilism. It then turns to argue that Priest's arguments fail against possibilism, and that trivialism, along with everything else, is possible. Finally, the explanatory advantages for modal semantics are briefly sketched.