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    Supports→Doubts about the existence of non-actual possible worlds cast doubt on C1 but not on B1

    Doubts about the existence of non-actual possible worlds can cast doubt on C1

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    there is an enormous epistemological difference between the arguments. … doubts about the existence of non-actual possible worlds cannot cast doubt on B1, but can cast doubt on C1. (Jackson 1989: 197–8)

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