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    Supports→A nonstandard semantics of modal adverbs like 'necessarily' and 'contingently' could achieve the same result as denying that propositions bear modal properties, without abandoning that doctrine.

    Modal adverbs could be analyzed as ascribing properties to propositions while being sensitive to more than just the proposition they operate on.

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    There are two main responses to the modal argument in the literature. The first involves a denial of the principle that, if p = p*, then p and p* have the same truth value in all counterfactual circumstances. Michael Dummett (1991) and Jason Stanley (1997a/b; 2002) have developed this response by denying that propositions are the bearers of modal properties. Dummett distinguishes senses from what he calls ingredient senses. Senses give the contents of expressions, are the bearers of truth and fa

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