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    Challenges→The counterfactual account of proposition truth-conditions fails for propositions that are too complex for any finite mind to grasp.

    If there are no possible tokens, the counterfactual account provides no truth-conditions for those propositions.

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    A concern for the type view is whether there will be “missing propositions” — truths or falsehoods which have never been entertained. One drawn to the type view may allow for the existence of uninstantiated types to account for the existence of these propositions. However, given that propositions are claimed to derive their representational features from their tokens, such uninstantiated types would lack representational features, and so lack truth-conditions. Hanks suggests dealing with such

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