Therefore, the best world may contain some human beings who are not better than, or even as good as, their replacements in the closest world to the best world.
This natural world may contain many mysteries and even unseen dimensions, but we have no reason to believe that they are anything like the heavens, spirit worlds and deities that have characterised supernatural religious beliefs over history.
But the oil companies that participated are hoping to increase their access to the coveted Orinoco Belt, an area the size of Costa Rica in southern Venezuela that may contain one of the world's largest recoverable oil reserves.
The world may contain much good, but it is also a place of suffering, destruction, and death.
Thoreau urges his reader not to "underrate the value of a fact," since each concrete detail of the world may contain a meaningful truth ("Natural History of Massachusetts").
(Indeed, when characters are underdescribed in a story, a single possible world may contain many individuals who fit exactly what the story says about the character).
The reason that Beverly Hills doesn't rank, of course, is that even though it may contain some of the world's most expensive properties, many homes there are also more modestly priced.
One of the most geographically isolated cultures in the world may contain the secrets to happiness that the rest of us have been looking for.
Insofar as each of these relata may contain a number of possible worlds, logicians and decision theorists commonly take combinative preferences to have states of affairs as their relata.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged that apart from wanting to showcase the charms of Nunavut (Inuit for "Our Land"), Canada is sending a diplomatic message about a territory that may contain one-fifth of the world's petroleum reserves.
