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    Challenges→Singular propositions about non-existent past individuals are problematic because the proposition's constituent would need to have determinate properties (age, position) that are absurd to attribute to an abstract constituent

    If Socrates is a constituent of the proposition 'Socrates died', then Socrates must be a determinate age and in a determinate position

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    (9) seems like a true singular proposition, as Socrates died long ago. How then is (9) true, as its constituent Socrates does not exist and so it does not exist? This is clearly the temporal analog of the modal problem discussed in the previous section. Moreover, if (9) is a singular proposition, then what is the constituent of (9) like? How old is it? Is it sitting or standing? It seems absurd to say that the age of a constituent of a proposition is thus and so and that it is sitting and not st

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