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    Identity with the wrong fact does not make a proposition ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→On a Wittgensteinian line, the false proposition that p being identical with a fact does not suffice to render the proposition true.

    Identity with the wrong fact does not make a proposition true.

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    Falsity, it seems, now no longer presents a difficulty, because if it is false that p then it is not a fact that p, so that (a) fails, and there is no appropriate candidate for the proposition that p to be identical with.[13] Notice that, in view of the considerations already aired in connection with the modal problem ((i) of this section), caution is here required. Suppose that it is true that p in the actual world, but false in some other possible world. According to the strategy that we hav

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