English Explanatory Dictionary

ersatzer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world

Word forms

ersatzer ersatzers

Etymology

From ersatz + -er. Coined in 1986 by the philosopher David Kellogg Lewis.

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