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    Challenges→Sentences expressing propositional attitudes (such as 'Seneca believed that man is a rational animal') express a relation between agents and propositions, where propositions are objective abstract entities that are the ultimate vehicles of truth and meaning.

    If propositions were the sole objects of belief, co-referential terms would be interchangeable in belief contexts without affecting truth value.

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    • 1.Propositions are abstract, language-independent entities that capture semantic content exhaustively.
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    • 2.If two terms refer to identical objects, they express the same proposition regardless of how reference occurs.
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    • 3.Substitution failures in belief contexts indicate the presence of non-propositional elements like modes of presentation.
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    • 1.Frege's puzzle shows 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' have identical referents but different cognitive significance in belief.
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    • 2.Belief requires a mode of presentation or conceptual path to the object, not merely the proposition itself.
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    • 3.The permutation of co-referential terms can change believed propositions when those terms carry distinct epistemic properties.
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