The cardinality objection to David Lewis's modal realism

Philosophical Studies 104 (2):169-178 (2001)
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According to David Lewis's extreme modal realism, every waythat a world could be is a way that some concretely existingphysical world really is. But if the worlds are physicalentities, then there should be a set of all worlds, whereasI show that in fact the collection of all possible worlds is nota set. The latter conclusion remains true even outside of theLewisian framework.

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Alexander R. Pruss
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