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    It is not the case that Frege and Russell treated propositions as abstract objects with determinate, unchanging truth-values, making temporal indexing a category error.

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    • 1.Sentences like 'it is raining' have determinate truth-conditions only relative to a time and place, suggesting propositions are inherently temporal.
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    • 2.The correspondence theory of truth requires propositions to match reality; since reality changes, propositions must track those changes to remain truthmakers.
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    • 3.Treating 'propositions are eternal' as dogmatic ignores that most meaningful discourse involves temporal content essential to semantic evaluation.
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    • 1.Mathematical truths like '2+2=4' seem to have fixed truth-values independent of time, suggesting abstract propositions share this timeless character.
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    • 2.If propositions changed truth-value over time, we couldn't meaningfully compare what someone believed yesterday with what they believe today.
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    • 3.Temporal operators like 'it will be true that' can be understood as claims about concrete events, not as indexing the proposition itself.
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