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    Supports→Modes of presentation need not be complex properties uniquely exemplified by the referent of the name.

    Modes of presentation can be understood as words, causal chains of word use, or other non-Platonic entities.

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    If propositions are unstructured and distinct from sets, there are several possibilities for explaining their identity conditions. First, identity conditions might be specified in terms of possible attitudes. One possibility is this: P=Q if, necessarily whoever believes (asserts, denies, etc.) P believes (asserts, denies, etc.) Q, and vice versa. Second, proposition identity might be reduced to property identity in the manner of Myhill (1963) and Zalta (1983). Thus, Zalta (1983, 72) offers the

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