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    Supports→Content must determine reference for subsentential expressions, just as it does for sentences.

    If two subsentential expressions have the same content but differ in reference, then two sentences differing only by the substitution of those expressions would have the same content.

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    Subsentential expressions(as used in philosophy of language)
    Parts of sentences that are smaller than a complete sentence, like individual words or phrases—basically, anything less than a full thought.
    content(Possible worlds semantics)
    The proposition expressed by a sentence; in possible worlds semantics, content is identified with an intension.
    reference(Distinguished from intension in the context of possible worlds semantics)
    The actual-world referent of an expression; what the expression picks out in the actual world.

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    If this holds for sentences, does it also hold for subsentential expressions? It seems that it must. Suppose for reductio that two subsentential expressions, e and e*, have the same content but differ in reference. It seems plausible that two sentences which differ only by the substitution of expressions with the same content must have the same content. (While plausible, this principle is not uncontroversial; see entry on compositionality.) But if this is true, then sentences which differ only

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