Ersatzism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract. uncountable

    "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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"One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility^([sic]) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description."

Etymology

From ersatz + -ism.

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