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noun
A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: metaphysics
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History
From ersatz + -er. Coined in 1986 by the philosopher David Kellogg Lewis.
