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    It is not the case that If no human beings exist, 'a human being is an animal' fails to correspond to any actual state of affairs, rendering it truth-valueless rather than true.

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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths hold regardless of physical existence; 'a human being is an animal' expresses a conceptual necessity.
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    • 2.Modal logic and possible worlds show statements can be true without present instantiation—the statement describes what would obtain.
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    • 3.Denying truth-value to conditionals and universal claims renders science and mathematics unintelligible when subjects don't exist.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Truth requires correspondence to actual facts; abstract statements about non-existent entities lack such correspondence.
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    • 2.A statement's truth-value depends on reality; if the subject matter doesn't exist, the statement cannot be assessed as true or false.
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    • 3.Attributing truth to statements about empty domains leads to counterintuitive results about non-existent objects.
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