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    Challenges→Possible worlds semantics cannot account for the difference in truth-value between sentences (15) and (16)

    If (13) and (14) have the same content, then (15) and (16) differ only by substitution of expressions with the same content

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    As we have just seen, the proponent of possible worlds semantics must take the italic sentences, (13) and (14), to have the same content; hence, it seems, the proponent of possible worlds semantics must take (15) and (16) to be a pair of sentences which differ only in the substitution of expressions with the same content. But then it seems that the proponent of possible worlds semantics must take this pair of sentences to express the same proposition, and have the same truth-value; but (15) and

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