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    A theory that cannot distinguish singular from general pr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Plantinga's view can account for the truth of claims about a possible child of Portman and Bush.

    A theory that cannot distinguish singular from general propositions about possible individuals fails to vindicate the specifically singular truth conditions it was introduced to explain.

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    Key Terms

    Theory(Among the candidate bearers of consistency/inconsistency)
    A set of sentences closed under logical consequence.
    Truth conditions(used to describe how we determine whether a thought accurately represents reality)
    The specific circumstances or facts that would make a statement true or false—what has to be the case for a thought to be correct.
    Vindicate(as used in philosophical arguments)
    To prove or justify that something is correct or valid.
    general proposition(Applied to expressions such as ∀nG(n) in the context of Goldbach's Conjecture)
    A universally quantified mathematical statement whose sense depends on the prior existence of a general method of decision
    possible individuals(things that might exist but don't)

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    Things (like people or objects) that could exist in some imaginable scenario, even if they don't actually exist in the real world right now.
    singular proposition(Used to explain why proposition (7) would require George Bush to exist in any world where proposition (7) exists.)
    A proposition whose constituents include the actual object(s) it is about, such that the proposition cannot exist without those objects existing.

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