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Ersatzist vs Ersatzism - What's the difference?

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Ersatzism is a related term of ersatzist.



In metaphysics terms the difference between ersatzist and ersatzism

is that ersatzist is an adherent of ersatzism while ersatzism is the doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.

As an adjective ersatzist

is pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism.

ersatzist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (metaphysics) Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (metaphysics) An adherent of ersatzism
  • * {{quote-journal, 2008, date=April 25, Mark Heller, The Donkey Problem, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-008-9227-z, volume=140, issue=1, pages=
    • , passage=Linguistic ersatzists hold that even if Lewis happened to be right about which hunks of stuff there are, he would still be wrong about modality. }}

    ersatzism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=April 25, Mark Heller, The Donkey Problem, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-008-9227-z, volume=140, issue=1, pages=
    • , passage=One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility(SIC) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description. }}

    Related terms

    *ersatzer *ersatzist