If false propositions cannot be identical with facts by definition, the Wittgensteinian line conflates propositional content with factual constitution, undermining P1's concession.
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Wittgensteinian(describing the philosophical tradition or approach being referenced)
Relating to Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher who argued that many philosophical problems come from misunderstanding how language actually works.
fact(Armstrong/Mellor's account of facts as truth-makers)
A fundamental entity consisting in objects, properties and relations bound together, posited to serve as truth-maker for contingent atomic predications
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.
propositional content(philosophy of language)
The semantic content of a sentence and its truth conditions, distinguished from the information a sentence is used to communicate