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    Supports→Abstract individuals that encode the cognitive content of names can serve as the relevant inputs to propositional construction, distinguishing co-referential names without requiring the referent to instantiate that cognitive content.

    Abstract individuals encode cognitive content rather than instantiate it.

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    If propositions are unstructured and distinct from sets, there are several possibilities for explaining their identity conditions. First, identity conditions might be specified in terms of possible attitudes. One possibility is this: P=Q if, necessarily whoever believes (asserts, denies, etc.) P believes (asserts, denies, etc.) Q, and vice versa. Second, proposition identity might be reduced to property identity in the manner of Myhill (1963) and Zalta (1983). Thus, Zalta (1983, 72) offers the

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