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    A Humean theory of metaphysical possibility supports the sufficiency of perfectly natural properties for characterising possible worlds

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    The second assumption, that the perfectly natural properties and relations are sufficient to characterise each possible world, has been rejected by Sider (1995) and Schaffer (2004). Both claim that it is metaphysically possible for there to be endless sequences of more and more natural properties, without any set of perfectly natural properties out of which all the other properties can be defined. In response to this problem, Sider (1993b) has proposed a modification of Lewis’s account which he

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