What does ersatzism mean?
Ersatzism means (metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract..
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(metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract..
One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility^([sic]) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description.
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Ersatzism means (metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract..
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One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility^([sic]) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description.
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