worldbound
worldbound adjective: existing in exactly one world.
Adjective
worldbound (not comparable)
- Existing in exactly one world.
- Since every concrete individual or thing is worldbound, I could not have had properties other than those I in fact have2005, David H. Lund, The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States
- What we should do here is not to set up a contrast between worldbound individuals and world lines, but to recognize that world lines are an indispensable means of speaking and thinking of the usual perfectly ordinary-looking entities, the ordinary denizens of the actual world.2012, Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka, The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic, →ISBN
Origin of worldbound
From world + -bound.
Questions about worldbound
- What does worldbound mean?
- Worldbound means existing in exactly one world.
- What part of speech is worldbound?
- Worldbound is an adjective.
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