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    Challenges→The proposition 'Every German philosopher is American' is universally contravalid with respect to the idea [philosopher]

    In a possible world where all German philosophers emigrate and naturalize as Americans, the proposition 'Every German philosopher is American' is true for all substitutions of 'philosopher'.

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    Substitution (in logic)(as used in formal logic)
    Swapping out one term or value for another in a logical statement while keeping the same structure.
    possible world(Leibniz's account of modality; 'existence' of possible worlds is shorthand for compossibility, not literal existence)
    A set of compossible essences — a maximal collection of individual natures that can co-exist without contradiction
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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