Identity theorists like McDowell who equate true propositions with facts cannot account for the asymmetry between grasping a proposition and perceiving a fact without reintroducing a sense/reference gap.
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A famous problem in philosophy about meaning: the idea that a word or phrase can have a clear meaning (sense) while still not directly tell us which real thing it refers to, or vice versa.
asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.