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    Challenges→The actual existence of things outside the soul is not always required for an affirmative proposition to be true.

    Kilwardby's move to ground truth in common natures rather than existents covertly relocates truth from propositions to definitions, conflating analytic necessity with propositional truth.

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    Analytic necessity(as contrasted with other types of necessity)
    The quality of being necessarily true (always true, not possibly false) because of the meanings of the words involved, rather than how the world actually is.
    Definitions(where Kilwardby's approach moves truth to instead)
    Statements that explain what a word or concept means by listing its essential features, like defining 'triangle' as 'a shape with three sides.'
    Existents(everything that comes into being through the process described)
    Things that exist or have being; all the stuff in the universe, from objects to ideas to people.
    Kilwardby(the subject of the statement)
    Robert Kilwardby was a 13th-century philosopher and Archbishop of Canterbury who developed theories about how we understand truth and meaning in language.

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    common natures(Scholastic metaphysics; used interchangeably with universals in this context)
    Shared natures or properties that, when instantiated by at least one individual, constitute real universals
    propositional truth(traditional correspondence theory of truth)
    Truth understood as correspondence between propositions (what is asserted) and how things are in themselves
    propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories

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