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Full Idea
It is perfectly notorious that not every story corresponds to a possible world.
Gist of Idea
Not every story corresponds to a possible world
Source
David Wiggins (Sameness and Substance Renewed [2001], 2.4)
Book Ref
Wiggins,David: 'Sameness and Substance Renewed' [CUP 2001], p.66
A Reaction
Thus a fantasy castle might be decorated with 'beautiful circular squares', or be threatened by a lump of enriched uranium twenty feet in diameter. Wiggins is replying to the claim that a possible world represents a 'story'.