English Dictionary

ersatzism

noun

(metaphysics) The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.

Ersatzism is a term used to describe the practice of substituting one thing for another.

意味（1）

(metaphysics) 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 of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description.