If propositional truth-conditions depend on possible tokening acts, then Fregean sense-independent propositions — accepted widely in anti-psychologistic semantics — are left without truth-conditions by the counterfactual account.
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The specific facts or circumstances that would need to be true in order for a statement to be true. For example, the truth-condition for 'it's raining' is that water is actually falling from the sky.
Sense-independent propositions(philosophy of language)
Statements or thoughts whose truth doesn't depend on how they're expressed—the same idea stays true whether you say it in English, Spanish, or any other way.
counterfactual account(Proposed as an analysis of the doing/allowing distinction)
A method of distinguishing doing from allowing by asking whether the upshot would have occurred had the agent never existed