ersatzism en · NOUN
Etymology
From ersatz + -ism.
Meanings
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(qualifier:metaphysics, uncountable) 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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