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    It is not the case that For a belief to be true in any meaningful sense, it must be possible for a contrary belief to be false, as Davidson's truth-conditional semantics requires.

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    • 1.Necessary truths (like '2+2=4') are meaningful and true despite their negations being impossible, contradicting the claim's requirement.
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    • 2.Analytic truths gain meaning from conceptual relations, not from counterfactual falsity conditions—meaning precedes modal possibility.
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    • 3.A belief's truth can be grounded in how the world actually is, independent of whether alternatives could have been possible.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Meaning requires contrast: without possibility of falsehood, a statement has no determinate content distinguishing it from others.
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    • 2.Truth-conditions are definitional: to understand what makes a belief true is precisely to grasp what would make it false.
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    • 3.Necessary truths (logical tautologies) are meaningful yet their negations are logically impossible, yet we still understand them meaningfully.
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