Ersatzism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ersatzism is a noun meaning (metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.
Meaning
(metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.
Example Sentences
One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility^([sic]) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subalternate, combinatorialism, algebraism, alternativity, trivialism, abstraction.
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