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    Challenges→A sentence can be 'strictly speaking untrue' as a literal assertion yet still express a true proposition under a paraphrase that eliminates abstract reference.

    Paraphrase always involves interpretation and potential meaning-shift. Claiming elimination of abstract reference achieves the 'same truth' presumes the paraphrase is faithful without independent justification.

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    Abstract reference(what some philosophers try to eliminate from language)
    When language points to ideas or concepts that don't exist as physical objects (like 'justice' or 'beauty'), rather than concrete things you can touch.
    Faithful (in philosophical context)(describing whether a paraphrase truly captures the original idea)
    Accurately representing or preserving the original meaning without distorting it.
    Paraphrase(using different language to express the same idea)
    Rewriting or restating something in a different way while keeping the same meaning.
    independent justification(Epistemology of justification transmission)
    Justification that appears intuitively independent of the original justification for a proposition q; more precisely, transmitted justification for q that is additional and independent when three counterfactual conditions are met: the subject was already justified in believing q before acquiring the new evidence, remains justified during acquisition, and would have gained a first-time justification via transmission had no prior justification existed

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    interpretation(Formal semantics for modal nonmonotonic logic)
    A complete, consistent set of literals

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