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    Challenges→A proposition with an empty subject idea is trivially false.

    If Meinongian subsistence allows empty-seeming subject ideas to genuinely denote objects beyond existence, the subject idea is not truly empty and the falsity claim loses its footing.

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    Key Terms

    Denote(as describing what each character in a notation must do)
    To directly refer to or stand for something; it's what a word or symbol does when it points to what it means.
    Meinongian(Named after Alexius Meinong; accepts nonexistent objects.)
    A theorist who holds that reality includes referents for empty names and that some of those referents do not exist.
    empty (in philosophical context)(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Lacking a real object or reference; an 'empty' idea is one that doesn't actually point to anything that exists.
    falsity claim(as used in logic and epistemology)
    An argument that something is false or not true; in this case, the claim that certain ideas are false because they don't refer to real things.
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    (as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    The concept or mental image you have in mind when you think about something—for example, your idea of what a 'unicorn' is.
    subsistence(Meinong 1910: 64 [52])
    A mode of being that is timeless

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