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    Only in exceptional cases will all variants of a proposition turn out to be true.

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    • 1.Performing variation on the subject idea of a proposition frequently produces variants with empty subject ideas.
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    • 2.Variants with empty subject ideas are trivially false under Bolzano's truth condition.
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    • 1.Analytic propositions in Bolzano's own framework are precisely those where all variants with non-empty subject ideas are true.
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    • 2.Bolzano himself acknowledges that analytic propositions are a legitimate and non-trivial class, not merely exceptional edge cases.
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    • 3.If analytic propositions constitute a well-defined category with genuine members, the claim that universal truth among variants is 'exceptional' understates their systematic prevalence.
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    • 1.Logical truths and tautologies—e.g., 'All bachelors are unmarried'—yield true variants under any non-empty substitution for the relevant idea.
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    • 2.Frege and Carnap's traditions identify a robust class of necessary truths whose validity is preserved across all admissible interpretations of their constituents.
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    • 3.If necessary truths are not merely exceptional but form a principled and philosophically central domain, the claim mischaracterizes the scope of universal variant-truth.
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    As far as our first example \(S_1\) is concerned, there are true as well as false variants of it with respect to every single extra-logical part of it and also with respect to every sequence of such parts. But now let us consider the following expamle \(S_2\): [Every German philosopher is European]. It has true as well as false [German]-variants, [European]-variants, ([German], [philosopher])-variants, ([German], [European])-variants, ([philosopher], [European])-variants and also ([German], [phi
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