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    It is not the case that Facts are worldbound entities: to be a fact is to obtain in a specific possible world, not merely to exist abstractly across worlds.

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    • 1.Mathematical facts (2+2=4) appear true in all possible worlds, yet world-boundedness makes them contingent rather than necessary.
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    • 2.Cross-world comparison and identity require facts about sameness existing outside any single world's obtainment.
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    • 3.Logic and laws of thought seem to hold necessarily across worlds, but world-boundedness restricts them to particular world-instantiations.
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    • 1.Facts about modal properties (what could be true) require anchorage in specific worlds; abstract facts lack the specificity needed to ground modality.
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    • 2.If facts existed timelessly across all worlds, counterfactual conditionals would be indeterminate rather than determinately true or false.
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    • 3.Our best semantics for 'obtaining' treats it as a world-relative predicate, not a world-independent abstract relation.
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