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    Challenges→Possible worlds semantics may not fully resolve the question of what propositions are.

    Possible worlds semantics defines propositions as sets of possible worlds.

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    Most philosophers believe in propositions, and hence think that semantics should be done according to one of the three broad categories of propositionalist approaches sketched above: possible worlds semantics, Russellianism, or Fregeanism. But it is notable that of these three views, only one—possible worlds semantics—actually tells us what propositions are. (Even in that case, of course, one might ask what possible worlds are, and hence what propositions are sets of. See the entry on possible

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