This is one of my biggest pet-peeves about a lot of languages, they basically have no way to bound the domain of discourse without getting quite complicated, and perhaps getting more formal as well, and in ordinary communication, a claim is usually assumed to have a bounded domain of discourse that’s different from the set of all possible X, whether it’s realities, worlds or whatever else is being talked about here, and I think this is the main problem with the attempt to make claim “In the real world, there are talking donkeys” sound absurd, because the real word is essentially attempting to bound the domain of discourse to talk about 1 world, the world we live in.
This is one of my biggest pet-peeves about a lot of languages, they basically have no way to bound the domain of discourse without getting quite complicated, and perhaps getting more formal as well, and in ordinary communication, a claim is usually assumed to have a bounded domain of discourse that’s different from the set of all possible X, whether it’s realities, worlds or whatever else is being talked about here, and I think this is the main problem with the attempt to make claim “In the real world, there are talking donkeys” sound absurd, because the real word is essentially attempting to bound the domain of discourse to talk about 1 world, the world we live in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_of_discourse