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The world as a state of affairs is not the “contradictory” state of affairs (strictly speaking, of course, only statements and predicates can be contradictory). For if it were, then every state of affairs would be an obtaining state of affairs, according to DP31, since the contradictory state of affairs is k, the total state of affairs, of which all states of affairs are (intensional) parts. There is, however, no doubt that some states of affairs do not obtain.
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Meixner, U. (1997). The Law of Non-Contradiction. In: Axiomatic Formal Ontology. Synthese Library, vol 264. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8867-6_14
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