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    Challenges→Sentences apparently expressing truths about propositions are false, because there are no propositions to serve as their referents.

    If anything is the referent of a 'that'-clause, it is a proposition.

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    Another nominalist option is to deny that there are propositions and any entities that play their theoretical roles. If so, apparently true sentences that entail the existence of propositions are false. Thus this kind of Nominalism about propositions is a sort of fictionalism, called semantic fictionalism (Balaguer 1998).[19] Thus a sentence like ‘Nestor believed that the gods do not give men all things at the same time’ is not true on this account because (a) ‘that’-clauses (like ‘that the g

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