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    Challenges→The singular term argument for propositions is more powerful than the singular term argument for mathematical objects

    If the theoretical framework generating propositional singular terms is itself eliminable, those terms carry less ontological weight than mathematical terms embedded in confirmed physics.

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    Key Terms

    Eliminable(showing that things can seem necessary but actually aren't)
    Able to be removed or gotten rid of without actually losing anything important; replaceable.
    Ontological weight(whether existential claims matter for what's really real)
    How seriously we should take a claim as telling us something genuinely exists in reality, rather than being just a convenient way of speaking.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Propositional singular terms(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    Words or phrases that seem to point to specific things or ideas (like 'the number 7' or 'justice itself'), which some philosophers argue are just a roundabout way of saying something about sentences.

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    confirmed physics(in philosophy of science)
    Scientific theories and laws about how the physical world works that have been tested and verified through experiments—like gravity or relativity.
    theoretical framework(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A system of connected ideas and rules that philosophers use to explain how something works—kind of like a blueprint for understanding a topic.

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