worldbound

English

Etymology

world +‎ -bound

Adjective

worldbound (not comparable)

1. Existing in exactly one world.
   • 2005, David H. Lund, The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States:

     Since every concrete individual or thing is worldbound, I could not have had properties other than those I in fact have

   • 2012, Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka, The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2015, Barry Loewer, Jonathan Schaffer, A Companion to David Lewis, →ISBN, page 245:

     Lewis accepts that both these objects exist: his mereological universalism (belief in arbitrary sums) guarantees the existence of the transworld object, given the existence of the various worldbound objects.