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    Supports→Lewis's modal ontology was expansionist with respect to what there is, even if not with respect to what there actually is

    Lewis held that the inhabitants of possible worlds include spirits, gods, trolls, and every other consistent entity imaginable

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    As the above quote makes clear, Lewis was a compatibilist about most questions in metaphysics. He certainly was one about free will. (“Are We Free to Break the Laws?” (1981a).) And he was a compatibilist about most nomic, intentional and normative concepts. This wasn’t because he had a global argument for compatibilism. Indeed, he was an eliminativist about religion (“Anselm and Actuality” (1970a), “Divine Evil” (2007)). And in some sense he was an expansionist about modality. Lewis may have con

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