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    It is not the case that A proposition that appears to be or entail a contradiction may not actually be a proposition at all.

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    • 1.Apparent contradictions in propositions about God may reflect the limits of human cognition rather than the absence of propositional content.
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    • 2.Kant's antinomies demonstrate that reason can generate genuine propositions that appear contradictory without thereby ceasing to be propositions.
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    • 3.Dismissing apparently contradictory statements as non-propositional forecloses legitimate inquiry into whether the contradiction is real or merely epistemic.
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    • 1.Frege and Russell distinguished between a proposition lacking truth-value and a proposition being false, preserving propositional status even for paradoxical claims.
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    • 2.The Liar Paradox ('This sentence is false') is treated by logicians as a genuine proposition with anomalous semantic properties, not as a non-proposition.
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    • 1.If a proposition appears under careful scrutiny to be or entail a contradiction, it is questionable whether there is even a proposition before the mind.
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    • 2.Before one can affirm a proposition as true one must understand it, but one cannot affirm as true a proposition that appears necessarily false.
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