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    It is not the case that There are infinitely many possible worlds

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Possible worlds are individuated by maximal consistent sets of propositions, and consistency is constrained by necessary logical and mathematical truths.
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    • 2.The space of necessary truths is finite and determinate, bounding the combinatorial space of genuinely distinct maximal consistent descriptions.
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    • 3.If the space of maximal consistent descriptions is bounded, the number of possible worlds cannot be infinite but is at most very large and finite.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's Tractatus establishes that logical space is defined by the totality of atomic facts and their combinations, not by an open-ended generative process.
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    • 2.If the number of logically independent atomic states of affairs is finite, as Russell and early Wittgenstein assumed, then the number of their combinations is large but strictly finite.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's regress of 'worse worlds' presupposes an infinite evaluative continuum, but ordinal rankings of worlds do not entail the worlds ranked are themselves infinite in number.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.For any possible world one can conceive, there exists a world worse than it
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    • 2.This regress of worse worlds has no bottom, implying an unbounded number of possible worlds
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