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    It is not the case that The 'argument by paraphrase' from Counterfactuals is insufficient to establish Lewis's form of modal realism

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    • 1.The argument relies on treating a folksy paraphrase as metaphysically revealing, which may merely be a careless manner of speaking
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    • 2.Folksy abstraction principles like the paraphrase used could be hiding a contradiction
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    • 3.The argument does little to show that other possible worlds are concreta, since describing them as 'ways things could be' makes them sound like properties, which are arguably abstracta
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