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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ersatzism en · NOUN

Etymology

From ersatz + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (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. 2026 April 25, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 1, →DOI:

Relateds

ersatzist · ersatzer