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be disproved by the states of the fabula, these worlds are not necessarily accessible to the world of the fabula, as will be shown in section 8.8.
8.7.2. S-necessary Properties
The opening macroproposition of Drame is /Some time before 1890 there was in Paris a man called Raoul/. Resorting to our encyclopedia, we single out Paris as an individual of W0 and 1890 as one of its past actual states (/1984/ would be instead a possible state of W0). But what about Raoul? So far we have no elements to single him out except the fact that he was one of the men living in Paris around 1890.
Fortunately, it is also stated that he was married to Marguerite. This is enough to single out Raoul without mistaking him for another individual (as far as the fabula is concerned).
Raoul is that individual who in a world WN (overlapping W0) in a state s1 has the property of being the one and only husband of Marguerite. Using an appropriate symbolization to assign him an iota operator of individual identification, we can say that
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that is, there is at least one individual x who is a man and who in the world under consideration married another individual z in a state temporally preceding the initial state of WN; and for every individual y who shares the same properties, provided that the individual z he has married is a previously identified individual, this y cannot but be our individual, who happens to be called Raoul.
This formula sounds strange since, in order to identify Raoul, one needs the previous identification of that x2 who is not constructed but is taken for granted.
In fact, the identification of Raoul cannot be separated from the symmetrical identification of Marguerite:
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Raoul cannot be identified without Marguerite, nor can Marguerite without Raoul. This is not the way we single out individuals in the world of our experience, but this is the way followed by a narrative text in setting up its supernumeraries.
Imagine a text saying the following:
There is John. And there is John.
We would refuse it as a story. Nothing says whether there are one or two Johns. A story might begin, but certainly not continue, this way. Suppose, on the contrary, that the story says the following:

 
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