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Schwarz I 65
Contingency/possible worlds/Lewis/Schwarz: you cannot limit the number of possible worlds because the totality of possible worlds does not exist in a possible world - ((s) Analog: you cannot limit contingency, because this limit itself is non-contingent.) - different: "how many ways there are depends on the possibilities".- But contingency is analyzed on possible worlds - hence the number of possible worlds is not contingent. >Possible worlds, >Possibility/Lewis.

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