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    It is not the case that Lewis's ontological commitment to possible worlds via the argument from Counterfactuals is insufficiently justified

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    • 1.Lewis claims that quantifying over possible worlds in a paraphrase of our theories is permissible
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    • 2.Lewis provides vanishingly little defence of why that paraphrase is permissible
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    • 3.An ontological commitment requires justification that the paraphrase permitting it is well-founded
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