Meaning of worldbound | Babel Free

Definitions

Existing in exactly one world.

not-comparable

Examples

“Since every concrete individual or thing is worldbound, I could not have⟳ had properties other than those I in fact have⟳”

“What we should do here is not to set⟳ up a contrast between worldbound individuals and world lines, but to recognize that world lines are an indispensable means of speaking and thinking of the usual perfectly ordinary-looking entities, the ordinary denizens of the actual world.”

“Lewis accepts that both these objects exist⟳: his mereological universalism (belief in arbitrary sums) guarantees the existence of the transworld object, given the existence of the various worldbound objects.”

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