Meanings
- pluralplural of worldmate
What they add, making them distinctively recombinational, are constraints on the individual members of the collections: [R1] adds that z is identical to x and that none of its worldmates is identical to y; [R2] adds that z is a duplicate of x and that none of its worldmates is a duplicate of y.
2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI
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