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    It is not the case that On a Wittgensteinian line, the false proposition that p being identical with a fact does not suffice to render the proposition true.

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    • 1.For the identity theorist (McDowell, Dodd), a true proposition just is a fact, so 'wrong fact' presupposes an impossible identity between falsehood and fact.
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    • 2.If false propositions cannot be identical with facts by definition, the Wittgensteinian line conflates propositional content with factual constitution, undermining P1's concession.
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    • 1.Frege's context principle entails that propositional sense is individuated by truth-conditions, so a false proposition and a fact cannot share identity conditions at all.
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    • 2.If identity between a proposition and a fact is truth-constituting by necessity (as Frege-inspired identity theorists hold), then no false proposition can coherently be said to be identical with any fact, making P1 vacuously false.
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    • 1.On a Wittgensteinian line, the false proposition that p is identical with a fact — at the very least with itself.
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    • 2.Given the failure of (a), the identity theorist can contend that that fact is the wrong fact.
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    • 3.Identity with the wrong fact does not make a proposition true.
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