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    Supports→Propositions that have never been and never will be tokened can still have truth conditions.

    Possible instances suffice to ground the inheritance of truth conditions even when no actual token exists.

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    Hanks’ explanation of why propositions as act types of the sort described have truth conditions comes in two steps. First, Hanks argues that token acts of predicating properties of objects have truth conditions. Hanks recognizes that some may doubt whether act tokens are the kinds of things that can be true and false. His main argument that they can be is that we have adverbial modifiers ‘truly’ and ‘falsely’ and that these attribute properties to action tokens. So just as ‘quickly’ in ‘Obama qu

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