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    Challenges→The modist view that essential predications like 'man is an animal' are false when no referents exist in the external world is mistaken

    If truth required external referents, then 'man is an animal' would be false when no men exist, which Simon's account of truth-determination contradicts

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    Simon’s position as regards empty reference is crucially different from the one held by modists such as Boethius of Dacia and Radulphus Brito, who claim that the truth-makers of essential predications, as ‘man is an animal’, are real things in the external world, so that ‘man is an animal’ would be false if no man existed.[7] Simon, however, claims that it is true, supporting his claim with a careful account of truth-determination. According to him, for an essential predication such as ‘man is

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