Reducing possibilities to language
The view that possible worlds should be identified with linguistic entities has a long and respectable history: Carnap (1947), Jeffrey (1965) and Hintikka (1969) are but a few philosophers who have supported some version of linguistic ersatzism. For the linguistic ersatzer, each possible world is identified with a set of sentences of some worldmaking language. This worldmaking language could be very different from English. For instance, it could contain an infinite number of names and predicates, or it might permit infinitary blocks of quantifiers and infinite conjunctions (see